About the Authors

Yu-Ho C. Chiu

Affiliation NRL, St Vincent's Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Joanna Ong

Affiliation NRL, St Vincent's Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Sandy Walker

Affiliation NRL, St Vincent's Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

July Kumalawati

Affiliation Clinical Pathology Department, Medical Faculty, University of Indonesia, Dr Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia

Tintin Gartinah

Affiliation West Java Provincial Health Laboratory, West Java Health Office, Bandung, Indonesia

Dale A. McPhee

Affiliations NRL, St Vincent's Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Elizabeth M. Dax

liz@nrl.gov.au

Affiliations NRL, St Vincent's Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YCC SW JO JK TG ED. Performed the experiments: YCC JO SW ED. Analyzed the data: YCC SW DM ED. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JO. Wrote the paper: YCC DM ED.