About the Authors
- Anusyah Rathakrishnan
-
Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Seok Mui Wang
-
Affiliation Institute of Medical Molecular Biotechnology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia
- Yongli Hu
-
Affiliation Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Asif M. Khan
-
Affiliations Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Sasheela Ponnampalavanar
-
Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Lucy Chai See Lum
-
Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Rishya Manikam
-
Affiliation Department of Trauma and Emergency Medicine, University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Shamala Devi Sekaran
-
* E-mail: shamalamy@yahoo.com
Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Selection of patients for study: LCSL SP. Demarcation of patient category: LCSL SP. Demarcation to new WHO classification: RM. Conceived and designed the experiments: SDS SMW. Performed the experiments: AR SMW. Analyzed the data: AMK YH AR SDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SDS. Wrote the paper: AR AMK SDS SMW.