About the Authors

Kiatichai Faksri

kiatichai@kku.ac.th (KF); angkana.cha@mahidol.ac.th (AC)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand, Research and Diagnostic Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (RCEID), Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Jun Hao Tan

Affiliation Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Areeya Disratthakit

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Eryu Xia

Affiliation NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Therdsak Prammananan

Affiliation National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Ministry of Science and Technology, Pathum Thani, Thailand

Prapat Suriyaphol

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Data Management for Research Unit, Office for Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Chiea Chuen Khor

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Yik-Ying Teo

Affiliations Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Rick Twee-Hee Ong

Affiliation Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Angkana Chaiprasert

kiatichai@kku.ac.th (KF); angkana.cha@mahidol.ac.th (AC)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KF AC. Data curation: KF. Formal analysis: KF. Funding acquisition: AC. Investigation: KF AD. Methodology: KF AD. Project administration: KF AC. Resources: AC TP PS CCK YYT RTO. Software: KF JHT EX RTO. Supervision: KF AC. Validation: KF. Visualization: KF. Writing - original draft: KF. Writing - review & editing: KF AC.