About the Authors

Yuan-Hong Wang

wyhhyc@163.com (YHW); nkobayas@sapmed.ac.jp (NK)

Affiliation Virology section, Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, Hubei Province, P.R. China

Bei-Bei Pang

Affiliation Virology section, Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, Hubei Province, P.R. China

Souvik Ghosh

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Xuan Zhou

Affiliation Virology section, Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, Hubei Province, P.R. China

Tsuzumi Shintani

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Noriko Urushibara

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Yu-Wei Song

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, P.R. China

Ming-Yang He

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, P.R. China

Man-Qing Liu

Affiliation Virology section, Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, Hubei Province, P.R. China

Wei-Feng Tang

Affiliation Virology section, Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, Hubei Province, P.R. China

Jin-Song Peng

Affiliation Virology section, Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, Hubei Province, P.R. China

Quan Hu

Affiliation Virology section, Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, Hubei Province, P.R. China

Dun-Jin Zhou

Affiliation Virology section, Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, Hubei Province, P.R. China

Nobumichi Kobayashi

wyhhyc@163.com (YHW); nkobayas@sapmed.ac.jp (NK)

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YHW NK. Performed the experiments: YHW XZ BBP SG TS YWS MYH MQL WFT. Analyzed the data: YHW SG BBP XZ YWS MYH NU NK QH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YHW JSP DJZ NK SG NU. Wrote the paper: YHW SG NK.