About the Authors

Appolinaire Djikeng

Contributed equally to this work with: Appolinaire Djikeng, Ryan Kuzmickas

adjikeng@jcvi.org (AD); dspiro@jcvi.org (DJS)

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Group, The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Ryan Kuzmickas

Contributed equally to this work with: Appolinaire Djikeng, Ryan Kuzmickas

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Group, The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Norman G. Anderson

Affiliation Viral Defense Foundation, Kensington, Maryland, United States of America

David J. Spiro

adjikeng@jcvi.org (AD); dspiro@jcvi.org (DJS)

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Group, The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AD NGA DJS. Performed the experiments: AD RK NGA DJS. Analyzed the data: AD RK DJS. Wrote the paper: AD RK DJS.