About the Authors
- Wei Zhen Chow
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Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Yutaka Takebe
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Affiliations Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, AIDS Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Nur Ezreen Syafina
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Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Malarvelli Soorya Prakasa
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Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Kok Gan Chan
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Affiliation Division of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Haider Abdulrazzaq Abed Al-Darraji
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Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Clayton Koh
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Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Adeeba Kamarulzaman
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Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Kok Keng Tee
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* E-mail: k2tee@um.edu.my
Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Competing Interests
Co-author Adeeba Kamarulzaman is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YT AK KKT. Performed the experiments: WZC NES MSP KKT. Analyzed the data: WZC YT KKT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WZC YT NES MSP KGC HAAA-D CK AK KKT. Wrote the paper: WZC KKT.