About the Authors

Gamaliel Gutierrez

Affiliation Sustainable Sciences Institute, Managua, Nicaragua

Katherine Standish

Affiliation Sustainable Sciences Institute, Managua, Nicaragua

Federico Narvaez

Affiliation Unidad de Infectología, Hospital Infantil Manuel de Jesús Rivera, Ministry of Health, Managua, Nicaragua

Maria Angeles Perez

Affiliation Unidad de Infectología, Hospital Infantil Manuel de Jesús Rivera, Ministry of Health, Managua, Nicaragua

Saira Saborio

Affiliation Laboratorio Nacional de Virología, Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico y Referencia, Ministry of Health, Managua, Nicaragua

Douglas Elizondo

Affiliation Sustainable Sciences Institute, Managua, Nicaragua

Oscar Ortega

Affiliation Sustainable Sciences Institute, Managua, Nicaragua

Andrea Nuñez

Affiliation Laboratorio Nacional de Virología, Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico y Referencia, Ministry of Health, Managua, Nicaragua

Guillermina Kuan

Affiliation Centro de Salud Sócrates Flores Vivas, Ministry of Health, Managua, Nicaragua

Angel Balmaseda

Affiliation Laboratorio Nacional de Virología, Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico y Referencia, Ministry of Health, Managua, Nicaragua

Eva Harris

eharris@berkeley.edu

Affiliation 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: GG KS FN MAP OO AB EH SS. Performed the experiments: GG FN MAP OO GK SS. Analyzed the data: GG KS DE OO AN AB EH SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EH. Wrote the paper: GG KS AB EH.