About the Authors

Nadine Thiel

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Kirsten A. Keyser

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Niels A. W. Lemmermann

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Jennifer D. Oduro

Current address: preclinics GmbH, Potsdam, Germany

Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Karen Wagner

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Carina Elsner

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Anne Halenius

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Tihana Lenac Roviš

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Melanie M. Brinkmann

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Stipan Jonjić

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Luka Cicin-Sain

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Martin Messerle

messerle.martin@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The current affiliation of JDO indicates that she is now employed by this company. Her employment at preclinics GmbH started after the work for this study was performed. preclinics GmbH had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NT MM. Formal analysis: NT NAWL. Funding acquisition: AH MMB SJ LCS MM. Investigation: NT KAK NAWL JDO KW CE TLR. Project administration: AH TLR MMB SJ LCS MM. Resources: TLR SJ. Supervision: AH MMB SJ LCS MM. Validation: NAWL JDO. Visualization: NT NAWL. Writing – original draft: NT NAWL MM. Writing – review & editing: NT NAWL JDO AH TLR MMB SJ LCS MM.