About the Authors

Renee W. Y. Chan

Contributed equally to this work with: Renee W. Y. Chan, Michael C. W. Chan

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China, Department of Pathology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China

Kit M. Yuen

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China, Department of Pathology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China

Wendy C. L. Yu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China

Carol C. C. Ho

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China

John M. Nicholls

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China

J. S. Malik Peiris

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China

Michael C. W. Chan

Contributed equally to this work with: Renee W. Y. Chan, Michael C. W. Chan

mchan@hkucc.hku.hk

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RWYC JMN JSMP MCC. Performed the experiments: RWYC KMY WCY CCH MCC. Analyzed the data: RWYC JMN JSMP MCC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RWYC JMN JSMP MCC. Wrote the paper: RWYC JSMP MCC.