About the Authors

Alex Pauvolid-Corrêa

pauvolid@ioc.fiocruz.br (APC); nkomar@cdc.gov (NK)

Affiliations Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, Arbovirus Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America, Fulbright Visiting Researcher in Doctorate Sandwich Program at CDC, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Joan L. Kenney

Affiliation Arbovirus Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Dinair Couto-Lima

Affiliation Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Zilca M. S. Campos

Affiliation Embrapa Pantanal, Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil

Hermann G. Schatzmayr

† Deceased.

Affiliation Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Rita M. R. Nogueira

Affiliation Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Aaron C. Brault

Affiliation Arbovirus Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Nicholas Komar

pauvolid@ioc.fiocruz.br (APC); nkomar@cdc.gov (NK)

Affiliation Arbovirus Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: APC HGS RMRN ACB NK. Performed the experiments: APC JLK DCL ZMSC. Analyzed the data: APC RMRN JLK ACB NK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: APC ACB NK. Wrote the paper: APC NK.