About the Authors

Kirsten Pörtner

poertnerk@rki.de

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Christina Frank

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Hendrik Wilking

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Klaus Stark

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Christiane Herden

Affiliation Institute for Veterinary Pathology, Justus Liebig-University Gießen, Gießen, Germany

Martin Beer

Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Greifswald- Insel Riems, Germany

Dennis Rubbenstroth

Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Greifswald- Insel Riems, Germany

Dennis Tappe

Affiliation Reference Laboratory for Bornaviruses, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.