About the Authors

Marta Castro

martac@ipk.sld.cu

Affiliation Epidemiology Division, Institute of Tropical Medicine “Pedro Kouri”, Havana, Cuba

Lizet Sánchez

Affiliation Clinical Research Direction, Center of Molecular Immunology, Havana, Cuba

Dennis Pérez

Affiliation Epidemiology Division, Institute of Tropical Medicine “Pedro Kouri”, Havana, Cuba

Carlos Sebrango

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, José Martí University, Sancti Spirítus, Cuba

Ziv Shkedy

Affiliation Center for Statistics, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Patrick Van der Stuyft

Affiliations Unit of General Epidemiology and Disease Control, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS DP PVDS. Performed the experiments: MC LS DP. Analyzed the data: MC LS CS ZS PVDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LS CS ZS. Wrote the paper: MC LS DP CS PVDS.