About the Authors

Dagwin Luang-Suarkia

Affiliations School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, Virology Laboratory, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea

Timo Ernst

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Michael P. Alpers

Affiliation Curtin University, Shenton Park, Western Australia, Australia

Ralph Garruto

Affiliation Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, United States of America

David Smith

Affiliations School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, Pathwest Laboratory Medicine WA, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Allison Imrie

allison.imrie@uwa.edu.au

Affiliations School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, Pathwest Laboratory Medicine WA, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AI DLS. Data curation: DLS AI. Formal analysis: DLS AI. Funding acquisition: AI. Investigation: DLS TE AI. Methodology: AI DLS. Project administration: AI. Resources: RG DS MPA. Supervision: AI. Validation: DLS AI. Visualization: DLS MPA AI. Writing – original draft: DLS AI. Writing – review & editing: DLS MPA AI.