About the Authors

Minako Ito

Affiliation Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Yusuke Yanagi

Affiliation Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Takeshi Ichinohe

ichonohe@virology.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY TI. Performed the experiments: MI TI. Analyzed the data: MI YY TI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MI YY TI. Wrote the paper: MI YY TI.