About the Authors

Adriana Tomić

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Pavankumar R. Varanasi

Affiliation Clinics of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Mijo Golemac

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

Suzana Malić

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

Peggy Riese

Affiliation Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Eva M. Borst

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Eva Mischak-Weissinger

Affiliations Clinics of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Germany

Carlos A. Guzmán

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

Astrid Krmpotić

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

Stipan Jonjić

Contributed equally to this work with: Stipan Jonjić, Martin Messerle

messerle.martin@mh-hannover.de(MM); stipan.jonjic@medri.uniri.hr(SJ)

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

Martin Messerle

Contributed equally to this work with: Stipan Jonjić, Martin Messerle

messerle.martin@mh-hannover.de(MM); stipan.jonjic@medri.uniri.hr(SJ)

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AT SJ MM. Data curation: SJ MM. Formal analysis: AT MM. Funding acquisition: SJ MM. Investigation: AT PRV MG SM EMB AK. Resources: EMW PR CAG. Supervision: EMW CAG SJ MM. Visualization: AT. Writing – original draft: AT MM. Writing – review & editing: AT PRV PR EMB CAG AK SJ MM.