About the Authors

Branka Popovic

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

Mijo Golemac

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

Jürgen Podlech

Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Jelena Zeleznjak

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

Lidija Bilic-Zulle

Affiliation Clinical Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics, Clinical Hospital Center, Rijeka, Croatia

Miodrag L. Lukic

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia

Luka Cicin-Sain

Affiliations Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Hannover-Braunschweig site, Braunschweig, Germany

Matthias J. Reddehase

Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Tim Sparwasser

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Hannover, Germany

Astrid Krmpotic

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

Stipan Jonjic

stipan.jonjic@medri.uniri.hr

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

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BP AK SJ. Formal analysis: BP. Investigation: BP MG JP JZ. Resources: SJ LBZ MLL LCS MJR TS. Supervision: AK SJ. Writing – original draft: BP AK SJ. Writing – review & editing: BP AK SJ.