About the Authors

Ming-Li Chou

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Thierry Burnouf

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shun-Pang Chang

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ting-Chun Hung

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathology, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan

Chun-Ching Lin

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Christopher D. Richardson

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Canadian Center for Vaccinology, Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Liang-Tzung Lin

ltlin@tmu.edu.tw

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

TB is an inventor of patents related to the minipool solvent/detergent process and owned by (EP 2271374 B1 and PCT WO2009/118331 A1: Method of Viral Inactivation of Biological Fluids by Solvent/Detergent Treatment) and owned by Research Foundation for Medical Devices (Fribourg, CH-1705, CH). This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLC TB LTL. Performed the experiments: MLC SPC LTL. Analyzed the data: MLC TB CCL CDR LTL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLC TB SPC TCH CCL CDR LTL. Wrote the paper: MLC TB LTL.