About the Authors
- Masaya Fukushi
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* E-mail: mfukushi@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Affiliations Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Deputy Director-General's Laboratory, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Virology, Institute of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
- Makoto Yamashita
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Affiliation Biological Research Laboratories, Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
- Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Shuku Kubo
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Affiliation Biological Research Laboratories, Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
- Kenji Yamamoto
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Affiliation Deputy Director-General's Laboratory, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Koichiro Kudo
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Affiliation Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors declare that Makoto Yamashita and Shuku Kubo are employed by Biological Research Laboratories, Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. 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: MF MY KK. Performed the experiments: MF MY TMA SK. Analyzed the data: MF MY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KY. Wrote the paper: MF MY KK.