About the Authors

Kim J. Hasenkrug

Contributed equally to this work with: Kim J. Hasenkrug, Claire A. Chougnet, Ulf Dittmer

Affiliation Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Claire A. Chougnet

Contributed equally to this work with: Kim J. Hasenkrug, Claire A. Chougnet, Ulf Dittmer

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Ulf Dittmer

Contributed equally to this work with: Kim J. Hasenkrug, Claire A. Chougnet, Ulf Dittmer

ulf.dittmer@uni-due.de

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.