About the Authors

Jeyanthi Suppiah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, Virology Unit, Infectious Disease Research Centre, Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Siew-Mooi Ching

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, Malaysian Research Institute on Ageing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

Syafinaz Amin-Nordin

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Lailatul-Akmar Mat-Nor

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Microbiology Unit, Department of Pathology, Hospital Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Naematul-Ain Ahmad-Najimudin

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Microbiology Unit, Department of Pathology, Hospital Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Gary Kim-Kuan Low

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Torrens University Australia, Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Selangor, Malaysia

Manisya-Zauri Abdul-Wahid

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Virology Unit, Infectious Disease Research Centre, Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ravindran Thayan

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Virology Unit, Infectious Disease Research Centre, Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Hui-Yee Chee

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

cheehy@upm.edu.my

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.