About the Authors

Sing-Sin Sam

Affiliation Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Center (TIDREC), Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sharifah Faridah Syed Omar

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Boon-Teong Teoh

Affiliation Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Center (TIDREC), Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Juraina Abd-Jamil

Affiliation Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Center (TIDREC), Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sazaly AbuBakar

sazaly@um.edu.my

Affiliation Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Center (TIDREC), Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA. Performed the experiments: SSS BTT JAJ. Analyzed the data: SSS SFSO BTT JAJ SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA. Wrote the paper: SSS SFSO BTT SA.