About the Authors

Yorihiro Nishimura

ynishi@nih.go.jp

Affiliations Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashimurayama-shi, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Hyunwook Lee

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Susan Hafenstein

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Chikako Kataoka

Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashimurayama-shi, Tokyo, Japan

Takaji Wakita

Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashimurayama-shi, Tokyo, Japan

Jeffrey M. Bergelson

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Hiroyuki Shimizu

Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashimurayama-shi, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YN HL JMB. Performed the experiments: YN. Analyzed the data: YN HL SH TW JMB HS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YN HL SH CK JMB HS. Wrote the paper: YN HL SH JMB HS.