About the Authors

Yuichi Murayama

ymura@affrc.go.jp

Affiliation Influenza/Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Miyako Yoshioka

Affiliations Influenza/Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Research Area of Pathology and Pathophysiology, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Hiroyuki Okada

Affiliation Influenza/Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Eri Takata

Affiliations Department of Agro-environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Kentaro Masujin

Affiliation Influenza/Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Yoshifumi Iwamaru

Affiliation Influenza/Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Noriko Shimozaki

Affiliation Influenza/Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Tomoaki Yamamura

Affiliation Influenza/Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Takashi Yokoyama

Affiliation Influenza/Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Shirou Mohri

Affiliations Influenza/Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of Neurological Science, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Yuji Tsutsumi

Affiliation Department of Agro-environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YM MY YT. Performed the experiments: YM MY HO ET KM YI NS T. Yamamura YT. Wrote the paper: YM YT. Supervised the study: T. Yokoyama SM.