About the Authors

David N. Bukbuk

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria

Stuart D. Dowall

stuart.dowall@phe.gov.uk

Affiliation National Infection Service, Public Health England, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Kuiama Lewandowski

Affiliation National Infection Service, Public Health England, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Andrew Bosworth

Affiliation National Infection Service, Public Health England, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Saka S. Baba

Affiliation Animal Virus Research Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria

Anitha Varghese

Affiliation National Infection Service, Public Health England, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Robert J. Watson

Affiliation National Infection Service, Public Health England, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Andrew Bell

Affiliation National Infection Service, Public Health England, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Barry Atkinson

Affiliation National Infection Service, Public Health England, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Roger Hewson

Affiliation National Infection Service, Public Health England, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DNB SDD RH. Investigation: SDD DNB KL ABo SSB AV RJW ABe BA. Resources: SDD DNB. Visualization: SDD DNB KL ABo. Writing – original draft: SDD DNB KL RH.