About the Authors

Youichi Suzuki

Contributed equally to this work with: Youichi Suzuki, Wei-Xin Chin, Qi'En Han

californiacircle@gmail.com (YS); micny@nus.edu.sg (NY)

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Japan

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Emerging Infectious Disease Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore

Wei-Xin Chin

Contributed equally to this work with: Youichi Suzuki, Wei-Xin Chin, Qi'En Han

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Qi'En Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Youichi Suzuki, Wei-Xin Chin, Qi'En Han

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Koji Ichiyama

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Ching Hua Lee

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Zhi Wen Eyo

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Hirotaka Ebina

Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Pathogenesis, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Hirotaka Takahashi

Affiliation Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan

Chikako Takahashi

Affiliation Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan

Beng Hui Tan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Takayuki Hishiki

Affiliation Laboratory of Primate Model, Experimental Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Kenji Ohba

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Toshifumi Matsuyama

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Yoshio Koyanagi

Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Pathogenesis, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Yee-Joo Tan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Tatsuya Sawasaki

Affiliation Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan

Justin Jang Hann Chu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Subhash G. Vasudevan

Affiliation Emerging Infectious Disease Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore

Kouichi Sano

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Japan

Naoki Yamamoto

californiacircle@gmail.com (YS); micny@nus.edu.sg (NY)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS NY. Performed the experiments: YS WXC QH KI CHL ZWE HE HT CT BHT TH. Analyzed the data: YS WXC QH CHL ZWE HE HT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KO TM YK YJT TS JJHC SGV KS. Wrote the paper: YS WXC QH NY.