About the Authors
- Hagen Frickmann
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hagen Frickmann, Denise Dekker
* E-mail: Frickmann@bni-hamburg.de
Affiliations Department of Tropical Medicine at the Bernhard Nocht Institute, German Armed Forces Hospital of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Hospital Rostock, Rostock, Germany
- Denise Dekker
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hagen Frickmann, Denise Dekker
Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
- Norbert Georg Schwarz
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Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
- Andreas Hahn
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Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
- Kennedy Boahen
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Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research, Kumasi, Ghana
- Nimako Sarpong
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Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research, Kumasi, Ghana
- Yaw Adu-Sarkodie
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Affiliation Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
- Eva Halbgewachs
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Affiliation Laboratory Department 1, Central Institute of the German Armed Forces Medical Services Kiel, External site Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Florian Marks
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Affiliation International Vaccine Institute (IVI), Seoul, Korea
- Vera von Kalckreuth
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Affiliation International Vaccine Institute (IVI), Seoul, Korea
- Sven Poppert
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Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology at the University Medical Centre Gießen, Justus-Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany
- Ulrike Loderstaedt
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Jürgen May
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
- Ralf Matthias Hagen
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine at the Bernhard Nocht Institute, German Armed Forces Hospital of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HF DD YAS EH SP UL JM RMH. Performed the experiments: HF DD KB NS EH RMH. Analyzed the data: HF DD NGS AH RMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HF FM SP JM RMH. Wrote the paper: HF DD NGS AH KB NS YAS EH FM VvK SP UL JM RMH.