About the Authors
- Susan Joseph
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Contributed equally to this work with: Susan Joseph, Prerak Desai, Yongmei Ji
Affiliation Pathogen Research Group, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Prerak Desai
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Contributed equally to this work with: Susan Joseph, Prerak Desai, Yongmei Ji
Affiliation Vaccine Research Institute San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Yongmei Ji
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Contributed equally to this work with: Susan Joseph, Prerak Desai, Yongmei Ji
Current address: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Affiliation Life Technologies Corporation, Foster City, California, United States of America
- Craig A. Cummings
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Current address: Sequenta, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America
Affiliation Life Technologies Corporation, Foster City, California, United States of America
- Rita Shih
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Affiliation Life Technologies Corporation, Foster City, California, United States of America
- Lovorka Degoricija
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Affiliation Life Technologies Corporation, Foster City, California, United States of America
- Alain Rico
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Affiliation Life Technologies Corporation, Darmstadt, Germany
- Pius Brzoska
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Affiliation Life Technologies Corporation, Foster City, California, United States of America
- Stephen E. Hamby
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Affiliation Bioinformatics and Biomathematics Group, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Naqash Masood
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Affiliation Pathogen Research Group, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Sumyya Hariri
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Affiliation Pathogen Research Group, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Hana Sonbol
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Affiliation Pathogen Research Group, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Nadia Chuzhanova
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Affiliation Bioinformatics and Biomathematics Group, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Michael McClelland
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* E-mail: mmcclelland@sdibr.org (MM); stephen.forsythe@ntu.ac.uk (SJF)
Affiliations Vaccine Research Institute San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Manohar R. Furtado
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Affiliation Life Technologies Corporation, Foster City, California, United States of America
- Stephen J. Forsythe
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* E-mail: mmcclelland@sdibr.org (MM); stephen.forsythe@ntu.ac.uk (SJF)
Affiliation Pathogen Research Group, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interests. YJ was employed by Life Technologies, RS is an employee of Life Technologies, LD is an employee of Life Technologies, PB is an employee of Life Technologies, AR was employed by Life Technologies, CAC was employed by Life Technologies and owns stock in the company, MF is an employee of Life Technologies and owns stock in LIFE. This work was funded by Life Technologies who also performed the genome sequencing. In addition, one of the co-authors, Craig Cummings is now an employee of Sequenta, Inc. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YJ CC SJ SJF. Performed the experiments: SJ SH HS YJ AR. Analyzed the data: YJ PD LD PB RS CC SEH NM SJ SH HS AR NC MM SJF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM MF. Wrote the paper: YJ CC MM SEH NC SJ SJF.