About the Authors

Matthias Lingemann

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

Affiliations RNA Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Institut für Mikrobiologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Thomas McCarty

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation RNA Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Xueqiao Liu

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation RNA Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ursula J. Buchholz

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation RNA Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sonja Surman

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation RNA Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Scott E. Martin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Division of Pre-Clinical Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Peter L. Collins

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

Affiliation RNA Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Shirin Munir

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

munirs@niaid.nih.gov

Affiliation RNA Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

M.L., P.L.C. and S.M. are coinventors on a patent application for the development of PST2238 (rostafuroxin) as an antiviral drug.