About the Authors

Ibeth Romero

Affiliation Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas (CIDEIM), Cali, Colombia

Jair Téllez

jaircinio@gmail.com

Affiliation Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas (CIDEIM), Cali, Colombia

Yazmín Suárez

Affiliation Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas (CIDEIM), Cali, Colombia

Maria Cardona

Affiliation Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas (CIDEIM), Cali, Colombia

Roger Figueroa

Affiliation Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas (CIDEIM), Cali, Colombia

Adrian Zelazny

Affiliation Microbiology Service, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nancy Gore Saravia

Affiliation Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas (CIDEIM), Cali, Colombia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IR JT AZ NGS. Performed the experiments: IR JT YS MC RF. Analyzed the data: IR JT YS MC RF AZ NGS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IR JT YS MC RF AZ NGS. Wrote the paper: IR JT YS MC RF AZ NGS.