About the Authors

Alison M. Hixon

Affiliations Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America, Neuroscience Program, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Guixia Yu

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine and Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

J. Smith Leser

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Shigeo Yagi

Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA, United States of America

Penny Clarke

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Charles Y. Chiu

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine and Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Kenneth L. Tyler

ken.tyler@ucdenver.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America, Denver VA Medical Center, Denver, CO, United States of America, Departments of Immunology and Microbiology, and Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CYC is the director of the UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center and receives research support from Abbott Laboratories, Inc. AMH, GY, SY, JSL, PC, and KLT declare no conflicts of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AMH PC CYC KLT. Data curation: AMH GY SY CYC. Formal analysis: AMH GY CYC. Funding acquisition: PC CYC KLT. Investigation: AMH GY JSL SY CYC. Methodology: AMH GY JSL SY PC CYC KLT. Project administration: AMH PC CYC KLT. Resources: SY CYC KLT. Supervision: AMH JSL PC CYC KLT. Validation: AMH GY JSL SY CYC. Visualization: AMH CYC KLT. Writing – original draft: AMH GY SY. Writing – review & editing: AMH GY JSL SY PC CYC KLT.