About the Authors
- Masato Hatta
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Contributed equally to this work with: Masato Hatta, Yasuko Hatta
Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Yasuko Hatta
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Contributed equally to this work with: Masato Hatta, Yasuko Hatta
Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Jin Hyun Kim
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Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Shinji Watanabe
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Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Kyoko Shinya
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Affiliation The Avian Zoonosis Research Centre, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan
- Tung Nguyen
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Affiliation National Centre for Veterinary Diagnostics, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Phuong Song Lien
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Affiliation Vietnam Veterinary Association, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Quynh Mai Le
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Affiliation National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Yoshihiro Kawaoka
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kawaokay@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu
Affiliations Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America , Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan , Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
MH, YH, SW, and YK conceived and designed the experiments. MH, YH, JHK, SW, KS, and QML performed the experiments. TN and PSL provided reagents/materials/analysis tools. MH, YH, and JHK performed the cloning experiments. MH, YH, and YK analyzed the data and wrote the paper.