About the Authors

Chee Wah Tan

tcwah@um.edu.my (CWT); chanyf@um.edu.my (YFC)

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Han Kang Tee

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Michelle Hui Pheng Lee

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

I-Ching Sam

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Yoke Fun Chan

tcwah@um.edu.my (CWT); chanyf@um.edu.my (YFC)

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CWT HKT ICS YFC. Formal analysis: CWT HKT MHPL ICS YFC. Funding acquisition: CWT YFC. Investigation: CWT HKT MHPL. Methodology: CWT HKT ICS YFC. Project administration: CWT ICS YFC. Resources: CWT ICS YFC. Supervision: CWT ICS YFC. Validation: CWT HKT MHPL ICS YFC. Visualization: CWT HKT MHPL ICS YFC. Writing – original draft: CWT HKT MHPL ICS YFC. Writing – review & editing: CWT HKT MHPL ICS YFC.