About the Authors
- Chikako Kataoka
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Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
- Tadaki Suzuki
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
- Osamu Kotani
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
- Naoko Iwata-Yoshikawa
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
- Noriyo Nagata
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
- Yasushi Ami
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Affiliation Division of Experimental Animal Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
- Takaji Wakita
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Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
- Yorihiro Nishimura
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Affiliations Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Hiroyuki Shimizu
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* E-mail: hshimizu@nih.go.jp
Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YN HS. Performed the experiments: CK YN TS OK NIY NN YA HS. Analyzed the data: CK TS OK NIY NN TW HS. Wrote the paper: CK TW YN HS. Performed animal studies or pathological analysis: CK TS OK NIY NN YA HS.