About the Authors

Siew Hoon Sim

Affiliation Defence Medical and Environmental Research Institute, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Yichun Liu

Affiliation Defence Medical and Environmental Research Institute, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Dongling Wang

Affiliation Defence Medical and Environmental Research Institute, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Vidhya Novem

Affiliation Defence Medical and Environmental Research Institute, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Suppiah Paramalingam Sivalingam

Affiliation Defence Medical and Environmental Research Institute, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Tuck Weng Thong

Affiliation Defence Medical and Environmental Research Institute, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Eng Eong Ooi

Affiliations Defence Medical and Environmental Research Institute, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, Republic of Singapore, Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Gladys Tan

tgekyen@dso.org.sg

Affiliation Defence Medical and Environmental Research Institute, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHS YL SPS EEO GT. Performed the experiments: SHS DW VN SPS TWT. Analyzed the data: SHS. Wrote the paper: SHS YL EEO GT.