About the Authors

Koukeo Phommasone

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

koukeo@tropmedres.ac

Affiliation Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Chanthala Souksakhone

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Blood Transfusion Center, Lao Red Cross, Rue Phai Nam, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Anisone Chanthongthip

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Ooyanong Phonemixay

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Chirapha Keokhamphoui

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Blood Transfusion Center, Lao Red Cross, Rue Phai Nam, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Stéphane Priet

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unité des Virus Émergents (UVE: Aix-Marseille Univ, Università di Corsica, IRD 190, Inserm, IRBA), Marseille, France

Karine Barthélémy

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unité des Virus Émergents (UVE: Aix-Marseille Univ, Università di Corsica, IRD 190, Inserm, IRBA), Marseille, France

Xavier de Lamballerie

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unité des Virus Émergents (UVE: Aix-Marseille Univ, Università di Corsica, IRD 190, Inserm, IRBA), Marseille, France

Manivanh Vongsouvath

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Elizabeth A. Ashley

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Audrey Dubot-Pérès

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Unité des Virus Émergents (UVE: Aix-Marseille Univ, Università di Corsica, IRD 190, Inserm, IRBA), Marseille, France, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The author(s) declare that there are no real or perceived conflicts of interest related to this work.