About the Authors

Emilia Radulovic

Contributed equally to this work with: Emilia Radulovic, Kemal Mehinagic

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Virology and Immunology IVI, Mittelhäusern, Switzerland, Vetsuisse Faculty, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Science, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Kemal Mehinagic

Contributed equally to this work with: Emilia Radulovic, Kemal Mehinagic

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Institute of Virology and Immunology IVI, Mittelhäusern, Switzerland, Vetsuisse Faculty, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Science, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Tsering Wüthrich

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliations Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Science, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Markus Hilty

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Horst Posthaus

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Vetsuisse Faculty, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Artur Summerfield

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors co-supervised the study.

Affiliations Institute of Virology and Immunology IVI, Mittelhäusern, Switzerland, Vetsuisse Faculty, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Nicolas Ruggli

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Nicolas.Ruggli@ivi.admin.ch (NR); charaf.benarafa@vetsuisse.unibe.ch (CB)

‡ These authors co-supervised the study.

Affiliations Institute of Virology and Immunology IVI, Mittelhäusern, Switzerland, Vetsuisse Faculty, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Charaf Benarafa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Nicolas.Ruggli@ivi.admin.ch (NR); charaf.benarafa@vetsuisse.unibe.ch (CB)

‡ These authors co-supervised the study.

Affiliations Institute of Virology and Immunology IVI, Mittelhäusern, Switzerland, Vetsuisse Faculty, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.