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Acknowledgements
We are thankful to Prof. Yukihiro Nishiyama for the isolation of C-REV in the Department of Virology, Nagoya
University Graduate School of Medicine. M.A is supported by a full scholarship from the Japanese government.
M.A.A is supported by a full scholarship from the Ministry of Higher Education of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
We also thank Emi Uematsu, Yumiko Samizo and Yukiko Kohmura for their technical assistance.
Author contributions
Conceptualization: Y.N., H.K.; investigation: M.A., I.R.E., M.A.A.; project administration: H.K.; supervision:
Y.N., M.T., Y.K., H.K.; writing-original draft: M.A., M.A.A.; writing-review & editing: S.M., P.A.S., I.B.V. All
authors reviewed the manuscript.
Funding
Takara Bio, Inc.; Japan Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant/Award Numbers: 16K15611, 16H05413.
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Competing interests Maki Tanaka is an employee of Takara Bio, Inc. and Hideki Kasuya received research funding from Takara Bio,
Inc. The other authors declare no competing interests. Takara Bio, Inc. had no role in the conceptualization, or
design of the study, in the collection, analysis, or interpretation of data, in the writing of the article, or in the
decision to publish the article.
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