About the Authors

Tsung-Hsien Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Tsung-Hsien Chang, Toru Kubota, Mayumi Matsuoka

Affiliation Program in Genomics of Differentiation, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Toru Kubota

Contributed equally to this work with: Tsung-Hsien Chang, Toru Kubota, Mayumi Matsuoka

Current address: National Institutes of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliation Program in Genomics of Differentiation, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mayumi Matsuoka

Contributed equally to this work with: Tsung-Hsien Chang, Toru Kubota, Mayumi Matsuoka

Current address: National Institutes of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliation Program in Genomics of Differentiation, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Steven Jones

Affiliation Population and Public Health Branch, National Microbiology Laboratory, Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Steven B. Bradfute

Affiliation United States Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Mike Bray

Affiliation Integrated Research Facility, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Keiko Ozato

ozatok@nih.gov

Affiliation Program in Genomics of Differentiation, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJ MB KO. Performed the experiments: THC TK MM. Analyzed the data: THC TK MM SBB KO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJ. Wrote the paper: SBB MB KO.