About the Authors

Tung G. Phan

Affiliations Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Beatrix Kapusinszky

Affiliations Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Viral Diagnostics, National Center for Epidemiology, Budapest, Hungary

Chunlin Wang

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America

Robert K. Rose

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America

Howard L. Lipton

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Microbiology-Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Eric L. Delwart

delwarte@medicine.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TGP ELD. Performed the experiments: TGP BK. Analyzed the data: TGP CW ELD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RKR HLL. Wrote the paper: TGP RKR HLL ELD.