About the Authors
- Alexander L. Greninger
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Eunice C. Chen
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Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Taylor Sittler
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Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Alex Scheinerman
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Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Nareg Roubinian
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Guixia Yu
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Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Edward Kim
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Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Dylan R. Pillai
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Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Cyril Guyard
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Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Tony Mazzulli
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Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Pavel Isa
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Affiliation Instituto de Biotechnología, Universidad National Autónoma de Mexico, Cuernavaca, Mexico
- Carlos F. Arias
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Affiliation Instituto de Biotechnología, Universidad National Autónoma de Mexico, Cuernavaca, Mexico
- John Hackett Jr
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Affiliation Abbott Diagnostics, Abbott Park, Illinois, United States of America
- Gerald Schochetman
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Affiliation Abbott Diagnostics, Abbott Park, Illinois, United States of America
- Steve Miller
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Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Patrick Tang
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Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Charles Y. Chiu
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* E-mail: charles.chiu@ucsf.edu
Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors received a viral discovery award from Abbott Diagnostics, Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ALG SM PT CYC. Performed the experiments: ALG ECC NR GY PI CYC. Analyzed the data: ALG ECC TS AS NR EK PT CYC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS DRP CG TM PI CFA JH GS SM PT CYC. Wrote the paper: ALG ECC TS SM PT CYC.