About the Authors

Chee Wah Tan

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Yoke Fun Chan

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Kooi Mow Sim

Affiliation Department of Chemical Science, Faculty of Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar, Malaysia

Eng Lee Tan

Affiliation Centre for Biomedical and Life Sciences, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore, Singapore

Chit Laa Poh

chitlaa.poh@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Health and Natural Sciences, Sunway University, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CWT YFC KMS CLP. Performed the experiments: CWT. Analyzed the data: CWT YFC CLP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YFC ELT KMS CLP. Wrote the paper: CWT. Provided EV-71 strain 5865/SIN/000009: ELT. Provided EV-71 strains SHA66, SHA52 and BrCr: YFC.