About the Authors

Marcelo Chen

Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease and Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Urology, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Cosmetic Applications and Management, MacKay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Taipei City, Taiwan

Wing-Wai Wong

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Matthew G. Law

Affiliation The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia

Sasisopin Kiertiburanakul

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Evy Yunihastuti

Affiliation Working Group on AIDS Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia/Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia

Tuti Parwati Merati

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine Udayana University & Sanglah Hospital, Bali, Indonesia

Poh Lian Lim

Affiliation Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Romanee Chaiwarith

Affiliation Research Institute for Health Sciences, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Praphan Phanuphak

Affiliation HIV-NAT/ Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

Man Po Lee

Affiliation Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy

Affiliation Chennai Antiviral Research and Treatment Clinical Research Site (CART CRS), YRGCARE Medical Centre, VHS, Chennai, India

Vonthanak Saphonn

Affiliation National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology & STDs, and University of Health Sciences, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Rossana Ditangco

Affiliation Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Manila, Philippines

Benedict L. H. Sim

Affiliation Hospital Sungai Buloh, Sungai Buloh, Malaysia

Kinh Van Nguyen

Affiliation National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Hanoi, Vietnam

Sanjay Pujari

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases, Pune, India

Adeeba Kamarulzaman

Affiliation University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Fujie Zhang

Affiliation Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Thuy Thanh Pham

Affiliation Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam

Jun Yong Choi

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Shinichi Oka

Affiliation National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Pacharee Kantipong

Affiliation Chiangrai Prachanukroh Hospital, Chiang Rai, Thailand

Mahiran Mustafa

Affiliation Hospital Raja Perempuan Zainab II, Kota Bharu, Malaysia

Winai Ratanasuwan

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Nicolas Durier

Affiliation TREAT Asia, amfAR—The Foundation for AIDS Research, Bangkok, Thailand

Yi-Ming Arthur Chen

arthur@kmu.edu.tw

Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease and Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Microbiology and Institute of Medical Research, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YMAC ND. Performed the experiments: MC YMAC. Analyzed the data: MC ND YMAC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WWW MGL SK EY TPM PLL RC PP MPL NK VS RD BLHS KVN SP AK FZ TTP JYC SO PK MM WR ND YMAC. Wrote the paper: MC MGL SO ND YMAC.