About the Authors

Dagwin Luang-Suarkia

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

Current address: Virology Laboratory, Papua New Guinea Institute for Medical Research, Goroka, E.H.P., Papua New Guinea

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Oriol Mitja

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lihir Medical Centre, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

Timo Ernst

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Shannon Bennett

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Alfred Tay

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Russell Hays

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

David W. Smith

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pathwest Laboratory Medicine WA, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Allison Imrie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

allison.imrie@uwa.edu.au

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.