About the Authors

Luciano Matsumiya Thomazelli

lucmt@usp.br

Affiliation Laboratorio de Virologia Clinica e Molecular do Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Jansen de Araújo

Affiliation Laboratorio de Virologia Clinica e Molecular do Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Thomas Fabrizio

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

David Walker

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Dilmara Reischak

Affiliation Laboratório Nacional Agropecuário, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Tatiana Ometto

Affiliation Laboratorio de Virologia Clinica e Molecular do Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Carla Meneguin Barbosa

Affiliation Laboratorio de Virologia Clinica e Molecular do Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Maria Virginia Petry

Affiliation Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Sao Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Richard J. Webby

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Edison Luiz Durigon

Affiliation Laboratorio de Virologia Clinica e Molecular do Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LMT JdA TF DW MVP ELD RJW. Formal analysis: LMT TF RJW. Funding acquisition: LMT ELD JdA. Investigation: LMT JdA TF DW MVP ELD RJW DR. Methodology: LMT JdA TF DW TO CMB DR. Project administration: ELD LMT. Resources: LMT JdA TF DW MVP ELD RJW DR. Software: LMT JdA TF DW MVP ELD RJW. Supervision: ELD DR. Writing – original draft: LMT TF RJW. Writing – review & editing: LMT TF RJW.