About the Authors

Michihito Sasaki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

m-sasaki@czc.hokudai.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Kentaro Uemura

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan, Laboratory of Biomolecular Science, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Akihiko Sato

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliations Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan

Shinsuke Toba

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan

Takao Sanaki

Roles Resources

Affiliations Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan

Katsumi Maenaka

Roles Resources

Affiliations Laboratory of Biomolecular Science, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

William W. Hall

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations International Collaboration Unit, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, National Virus Reference Laboratory, School of Medicine, University College of Dublin, Ireland, Global Virus Network, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yasuko Orba

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, International Collaboration Unit, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Hirofumi Sawa

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, International Collaboration Unit, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Global Virus Network, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: K.U., A.S., S.T., and T.S. are employees of Shionogi & Co., Ltd. Other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.