About the Authors

Ramon E. Guevara

Contributed equally to this work with: Ramon E. Guevara, Tasneem Motala, Dawn Terashita

rguevara@ph.lacounty.gov

Affiliation Emergency Preparedness and Response Program, Department of Public Health, County of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Tasneem Motala

Contributed equally to this work with: Ramon E. Guevara, Tasneem Motala, Dawn Terashita

Affiliation Acute Communicable Disease Control Program, Department of Public Health, County of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Dawn Terashita

Contributed equally to this work with: Ramon E. Guevara, Tasneem Motala, Dawn Terashita

Affiliation Acute Communicable Disease Control Program, Department of Public Health, County of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: REG TM DT. Performed the experiments: REG TM. Analyzed the data: REG TM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: REG TM DT. Wrote the paper: REG TM DT.