About the Authors

Hiromichi Dansako

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Tumor Virology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Science, Okayama, Japan

Daisuke Yamane

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Christoph Welsch

Current address: Department of Internal Medicine I, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

David R. McGivern

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Fengyu Hu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Nobuyuki Kato

Affiliation Department of Tumor Virology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Science, Okayama, Japan

Stanley M. Lemon

smlemon@med.unc.edu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HD DY CW DRM FH SML. Performed the experiments: HD DY DRM FH. Analyzed the data: HD DY DRM CW SML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK. Wrote the paper: HD DRM SML.