About the Authors

Grace K. Tan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology Programme, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Jowin K. W. Ng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology Programme, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Scott L. Trasti

Affiliation Comparative Medicine Centre, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Wouter Schul

Affiliation Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD), Singapore, Singapore

George Yip

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Sylvie Alonso

micas@nus.edu.sg

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology Programme, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GKT SA. Performed the experiments: GKT JKWN. Analyzed the data: GKT SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLT WS GY. Wrote the paper: GKT SA.