About the Authors

Ryosuke Suzuki

ryosuke@nih.go.jp (RS); tesuzuki@hama-med.ac.jp (TS)

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

Mami Matsuda

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

Koichi Watashi

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

Hideki Aizaki

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

Yoshiharu Matsuura

Affiliation Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Takaji Wakita

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

Tetsuro Suzuki

ryosuke@nih.go.jp (RS); tesuzuki@hama-med.ac.jp (TS)

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Shizuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS TS. Performed the experiments: RS MM. Analyzed the data: RS KW HA TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YM TW. Wrote the paper: RS TS.