About the Authors

Nina Wallaschek

Affiliation Institut für Virologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Anirban Sanyal

Affiliation Institut für Virologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Fabian Pirzer

Affiliation Institut für Virologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Annie Gravel

Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease and Immunity, CHU de Québec Research Center, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Yasuko Mori

Affiliation Division of Clinical Virology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Louis Flamand

Affiliations Division of Infectious Disease and Immunity, CHU de Québec Research Center, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, Department of Microbiology, Infectious Disease and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, Québec, Canada

Benedikt B. Kaufer

b.kaufer@fu-berlin.de

Affiliation Institut für Virologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NW BBK. Performed the experiments: NW AS FP AG. Analyzed the data: NW AG BBK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YM. Wrote the paper: NW AG LF BBK.