About the Authors
- Ming-Li Chou
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Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Thierry Burnouf
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Affiliation Graduate Institute of Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Shun-Pang Chang
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Affiliation School of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Ting-Chun Hung
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathology, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
- Chun-Ching Lin
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Affiliation School of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Christopher D. Richardson
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Canadian Center for Vaccinology, Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Liang-Tzung Lin
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* E-mail: 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.