About the Authors

Martin Rudolf

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin Rudolf, Christina Czajka

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg; Molecular Entomology Group, Hamburg, Germany

Christina Czajka

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin Rudolf, Christina Czajka

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg; Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany, KABS e.V., Waldsee, Germany

Jessica Börstler

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg; Molecular Entomology Group, Hamburg, Germany

Christian Melaun

Affiliation Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre Medical Biodiversity and Parasitology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Hanna Jöst

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg; WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research, Hamburg, Germany, KABS e.V., Waldsee, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Luebeck-Borstel, Hamburg, Germany

Heidrun von Thien

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg; Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany

Marlis Badusche

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg; Molecular Entomology Group, Hamburg, Germany

Norbert Becker

Affiliation KABS e.V., Waldsee, Germany

Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg; WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Luebeck-Borstel, Hamburg, Germany

Andreas Krüger

Affiliation Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg; Department Tropical Medicine; Entomology Group, Hamburg, Germany

Egbert Tannich

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg; Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Luebeck-Borstel, Hamburg, Germany

Stefanie Becker

stefanie.mueller@bni-hamburg.de

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg; Molecular Entomology Group, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB ET JSC AK. Performed the experiments: MR CC JB CM HJ HvT MB. Analyzed the data: MR CC JB CM HJ HvT MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJ JSC NB. Wrote the paper: MR AK ET SB.