About the Authors
- Hirono Otomaru
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Affiliation Department of Virology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Taro Kamigaki
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* E-mail: kamigakit@med.tohoku.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Virology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Raita Tamaki
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Affiliation Department of Virology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Jamie Opinion
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Affiliation Tacloban City Health Office, Tacloban City, the Philippines
- Arlene Santo
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Affiliation Tanauan Rural Health Unit, Tanauan, the Philippines
- Edgard Daya
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Affiliation Leyte Provincial Health Office, Palo, the Philippines
- Michiko Okamoto
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Affiliation Department of Virology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Mariko Saito
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Affiliations Department of Virology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, Tohoku-RITM Research Center for Emerging and Reemerging Infections, Muntinlupa City, the Philippines
- Veronica Tallo
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Affiliation Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Muntinlupa City, the Philippines
- Soccoro Lupisan
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Affiliation Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Muntinlupa City, the Philippines
- Akira Suzuki
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Current address: Department of Pediatrics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
Affiliation Virus Research Center, Clinical Research Division, Sendai Medical Center, Sendai, Japan
- Hitoshi Oshitani
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Affiliation Department of Virology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: H. Otomaru TK H. Oshitani. Performed the experiments: H. Otomaru MO MS. Analyzed the data: H. Otomaru TK RT A. Suzuki. Wrote the paper: TK H. Otomaru RT JO A. Santo ED MO MS VT SL A. Suzuki H. Oshitani. Acquisition of data: JO A. Santo ED VT SL.