About the Authors

Sayaphet Rattanavong

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

Sayaphet@tropmedres.ac (SR); Dparker1@uci.edu (DMP)

Affiliation Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Audrey Dubot-Pérès

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, Unité des Virus Émergents (UVE: Aix-Marseille Univ–IRD 190 –Inserm 1207 –IHU Méditerranée Infection), Marseille, France

Mayfong Mayxay

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, Institute of Research and Education Development, University of Health Sciences, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Manivanh Vongsouvath

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Sue J. Lee

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand

Julien Cappelle

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Epidemiology and Public Health Unit, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, CIRAD, UMR ASTRE, F-34398, Montpellier, France, UMR ASTRE, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, UMR EpiA, INRA, VetAgro Sup, Marcy l’Etoile, France

Paul N. Newton

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand

Daniel M. Parker

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Sayaphet@tropmedres.ac (SR); Dparker1@uci.edu (DMP)

Affiliations Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, University of California, Irvine, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.