About the Authors
- Thomas Briese
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Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Briese, Janusz T. Paweska
* E-mail: thomas.briese@columbia.edu (TB); wil2001@columbia.edu (WIL)
Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Janusz T. Paweska
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Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Briese, Janusz T. Paweska
Affiliation Special Pathogens Unit, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa
- Laura K. McMullan
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Affiliation Special Pathogens Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Stephen K. Hutchison
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Affiliation 454 Life Sciences, Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
- Craig Street
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Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Gustavo Palacios
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Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Marina L. Khristova
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Affiliation Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Jacqueline Weyer
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Affiliation Special Pathogens Unit, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa
- Robert Swanepoel
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Affiliation Special Pathogens Unit, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa
- Michael Egholm
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Affiliation 454 Life Sciences, Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
- Stuart T. Nichol
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Affiliation Special Pathogens Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- W. Ian Lipkin
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* E-mail: thomas.briese@columbia.edu (TB); wil2001@columbia.edu (WIL)
Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
SKH and ME are employees of 454 Life Sciences, Inc., a Roche Company.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TB WIL. Performed the experiments: TB JTP LKM SKH GP MLK JW. Analyzed the data: TB LKM SKH CS GP MLK ME STN WIL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JTP CS JW BS ME. Wrote the paper: TB JTP BS STN WIL.