About the Authors

Federico Narvaez

Contributed equally to this work with: Federico Narvaez, Gamaliel Gutierrez

Affiliations Infectious Diseases Unit, Hospital Infantil Manuel de Jesús Rivera, Managua, Nicaragua, Sustainable Sciences Institute, Managua, Nicaragua

Gamaliel Gutierrez

Contributed equally to this work with: Federico Narvaez, Gamaliel Gutierrez

Affiliation Sustainable Sciences Institute, Managua, Nicaragua

Maria Angeles Pérez

Affiliations Infectious Diseases Unit, Hospital Infantil Manuel de Jesús Rivera, Managua, Nicaragua, Sustainable Sciences Institute, Managua, Nicaragua

Douglas Elizondo

Affiliation Sustainable Sciences Institute, Managua, Nicaragua

Andrea Nuñez

Affiliations Sustainable Sciences Institute, Managua, Nicaragua, National Virology Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico y Referencia, Ministry of Health, Managua, Nicaragua

Angel Balmaseda

Affiliations Sustainable Sciences Institute, Managua, Nicaragua, National Virology Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico y Referencia, Ministry of Health, Managua, Nicaragua

Eva Harris

eharris@berkeley.edu

Affiliations Sustainable Sciences Institute, Managua, Nicaragua, Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FN GG MAP AB EH. Performed the experiments: FN MAP. Analyzed the data: GG AN DE AB EH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EH MAP AB. Wrote the paper: GG AB EH.