About the Authors

Akira Kawaguchi

Affiliations Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, Center for Influenza Virus Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan

Tadaki Suzuki

tksuzuki@niid.go.jp

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Yuki Ohara

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Kenta Takahashi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Yuko Sato

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Akira Ainai

Affiliations Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, Center for Influenza Virus Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan

Noriyo Nagata

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Masato Tashiro

Affiliation Center for Influenza Virus Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan

Hideki Hasegawa

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AK TS. Formal analysis: AK TS. Funding acquisition: TS HH. Investigation: AK TS YO KT YS AA NN. Methodology: AK TS AA NN. Project administration: TS MT HH. Resources: AK TS YS AA MT. Supervision: MT HH. Validation: TS YO KT. Visualization: AK TS. Writing – original draft: AK TS. Writing – review & editing: TS MT HH.