About the Authors

Cristian Cillóniz

Contributed equally to this work with: Cristian Cillóniz, Kyoko Shinya

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kyoko Shinya

Contributed equally to this work with: Cristian Cillóniz, Kyoko Shinya

Affiliation Division of Zoonosis, Department of Microbiology and infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

Xinxia Peng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Marcus J. Korth

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sean C. Proll

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lauri D. Aicher

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Victoria S. Carter

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jean H. Chang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Darwyn Kobasa

Affiliations Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Friedericke Feldmann

Current address: Office of the Associate Director, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Affiliation Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada

James E. Strong

Affiliations Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Heinz Feldmann

Current address: Laboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Affiliations Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

Affiliations Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Special Pathogens, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ERATO Infection-Induced Host Responses Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan

Michael G. Katze

honey@u.washington.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Washington National Primate Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC HF YK MGK. Performed the experiments: KS LDA VSC JHC DK FF JES. Analyzed the data: CC KS XP SCP HF YK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XP. Wrote the paper: CC MJK MGK.