About the Authors

Giovanni Rezza

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Scott C. Weaver

sweaver@utmb.edu

Affiliation Institute for Human Infections and Immunity and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy, and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: SCW holds patents for alphavirus attenuation that are licensed for vaccine development.