About the Authors

Elizabeth Ajema Chebichi Luvai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Program for Nurturing Global Leaders in Tropical and Emerging Communicable Diseases, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Technology, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, The Technical University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

Aung Kyaw Kyaw

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Sports, Yangon, Myanmar

Nundu Sabiti Sabin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Program for Nurturing Global Leaders in Tropical and Emerging Communicable Diseases, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Fuxun Yu

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China

Saw Wut Hmone

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Medicine-1, Lanmadaw township, Yangon, Myanmar

Kyaw Zin Thant

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Sports, Yangon, Myanmar

Shingo Inoue

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Kouichi Morita

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

moritak@nagasaki-u.ac.jp (KM); myamyat@tm.nagasaki-u.ac.jp (MMNT)

Affiliations Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Program for Nurturing Global Leaders in Tropical and Emerging Communicable Diseases, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Mya Myat Ngwe Tun

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

moritak@nagasaki-u.ac.jp (KM); myamyat@tm.nagasaki-u.ac.jp (MMNT)

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.