About the Authors

Belete Teferedegne

Affiliation Laboratory of DNA Viruses, Division of Viral Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Haruhiko Murata

Affiliation Laboratory of DNA Viruses, Division of Viral Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mariam Quiñones

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Keith Peden

Affiliation Laboratory of Retrovirus Research, Division of Viral Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Andrew M. Lewis Jr

andrew.lewis@fda.hhs.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of DNA Viruses, Division of Viral Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BT AMLJ. Performed the experiments: BT. Analyzed the data: BT MQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BT HM. Wrote the paper: BT HM KP AMLJ.