About the Authors

Christelle Mbondji-Wonje

christelle.mbondji@fda.hhs.gov

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Virology, Division of Emerging and Transmission Transmitted Diseases, Office of Blood Review and Research, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD, 20993, United States of America, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Biomedical sciences, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

Viswanath Ragupathy

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Virology, Division of Emerging and Transmission Transmitted Diseases, Office of Blood Review and Research, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD, 20993, United States of America

Jiangqin Zhao

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Virology, Division of Emerging and Transmission Transmitted Diseases, Office of Blood Review and Research, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD, 20993, United States of America

Aubin Nanfack

Affiliations Chantal Biya International Reference Centre, Yaoundé, Cameroon, Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Sherwin Lee

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Virology, Division of Emerging and Transmission Transmitted Diseases, Office of Blood Review and Research, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD, 20993, United States of America

Judith Torimiro

Affiliation Chantal Biya International Reference Centre, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Phillipe Nyambi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Indira K. Hewlett

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Virology, Division of Emerging and Transmission Transmitted Diseases, Office of Blood Review and Research, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD, 20993, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMW IKH. Performed the experiments: CMW VR. Analyzed the data: CMW VR JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IKH PN CMW AN JT SL. Wrote the paper: CMW IKH.