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

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.