About the Authors

Zhiming Huo

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiming Huo, Sara L. Bissett

Affiliation Infectious Diseases, St George's - University of London, London, United Kingdom

Sara L. Bissett

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiming Huo, Sara L. Bissett

Affiliation Virus Reference Department, Health Protection Agency, London, United Kingdom

Raphaela Giemza

Affiliation Infectious Diseases, St George's - University of London, London, United Kingdom

Simon Beddows

Affiliation Virus Reference Department, Health Protection Agency, London, United Kingdom

Clarissa Oeser

Affiliation Infectious Diseases, St George's - University of London, London, United Kingdom

David J. M. Lewis

d.j.lewis@surrey.ac.uk

Affiliation Surrey Clinical Research Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB DJML. Performed the experiments: ZH SLB RG CO. Analyzed the data: ZH SLB SB DJML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLB SB. Wrote the paper: ZH SLB RG SB CO DJML.