About the Authors

Hirono Otomaru

Affiliation Department of Virology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Taro Kamigaki

kamigakit@med.tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Virology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Raita Tamaki

Affiliation Department of Virology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Jamie Opinion

Affiliation Tacloban City Health Office, Tacloban City, the Philippines

Arlene Santo

Affiliation Tanauan Rural Health Unit, Tanauan, the Philippines

Edgard Daya

Affiliation Leyte Provincial Health Office, Palo, the Philippines

Michiko Okamoto

Affiliation Department of Virology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Mariko Saito

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

Affiliation Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Muntinlupa City, the Philippines

Soccoro Lupisan

Affiliation Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Muntinlupa City, the Philippines

Akira Suzuki

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

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.