About the Authors

Ken Lemon

Contributed equally to this work with: Ken Lemon, Rory D. de Vries

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Rory D. de Vries

Contributed equally to this work with: Ken Lemon, Rory D. de Vries

Affiliation Department of Virology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Annelies W. Mesman

Affiliation Centre for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Stephen McQuaid

Affiliation Tissue Pathology, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Geert van Amerongen

Affiliation Department of Virology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Selma Yüksel

Affiliation Department of Virology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Martin Ludlow

Affiliations Centre for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, Department of Virology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Linda J. Rennick

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Thijs Kuiken

Affiliation Department of Virology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Bertus K. Rima

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Teunis B. H. Geijtenbeek

Affiliation Centre for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus

Affiliation Department of Virology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

W. Paul Duprex

pduprex@bu.edu

Affiliations Centre for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rik L. de Swart

Affiliation Department of Virology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

A.D.M.E. Osterhaus wishes to declare, for the avoidance of any misunderstanding on competing interests, that he founded and is chief scientific officer of Viroclinics, a company set up in collaboration with Erasmus University. However, for clarification, no materials or support were received from the company, and no agreements were in place concerning the execution or publication of this work.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RDdV WPD RLdS. Performed the experiments: KL RDdV AWM SM GvA SY ML LJR WPD RLdS. Analyzed the data: KL RDdV AWM SM TK BKR TBHG ADMEO WPD RLdS. Wrote the paper: KL RDdV TK WPD RLdS.