About the Authors

Jowin Kai Wei Ng

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Immunology Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Summer Lixin Zhang

Affiliation Defence Science Organization National Laboratories, Singapore

Hwee Cheng Tan

Affiliation Progamme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore

Benedict Yan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore

Julia Maria Martinez Gomez

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Immunology Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Wei Yu Tan

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Immunology Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Jian Hang Lam

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Immunology Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Grace Kai Xin Tan

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Immunology Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Eng Eong Ooi

Affiliation Progamme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore

Sylvie Alonso

micas@nus.edu.sg

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Immunology Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JKWN EEO SA. Performed the experiments: JKWN SLZ HCT JMMG WYT JHL GKXT. Analyzed the data: JKWN BY EEO SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EEO. Wrote the paper: JKWN EEO SA.