About the Authors

Jesse J. Waggoner

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Janaki Abeynayake

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Malaya K. Sahoo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Lionel Gresh

Affiliation Sustainable Sciences Institute, Managua, Nicaragua

Yolanda Tellez

Affiliation National Virology Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico y Referencia, Ministry of Health, Managua, Nicaragua

Karla Gonzalez

Affiliation National Virology Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico y Referencia, Ministry of Health, Managua, Nicaragua

Gabriela Ballesteros

Affiliation National Virology Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico y Referencia, Ministry of Health, Managua, Nicaragua

Anna M. Pierro

Affiliation Clinical Microbiology Unit, Regional Reference Centre for Microbiological Emergencies – CRREM, St. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Paolo Gaibani

Affiliation Clinical Microbiology Unit, Regional Reference Centre for Microbiological Emergencies – CRREM, St. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Frances P. Guo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Vittorio Sambri

Affiliation Clinical Microbiology Unit, Regional Reference Centre for Microbiological Emergencies – CRREM, St. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Angel Balmaseda

Affiliation National Virology Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico y Referencia, Ministry of Health, Managua, Nicaragua

Kumudu Karunaratne

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Lady Ridgeway Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Eva Harris

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Benjamin A. Pinsky

bpinsky@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJW BAP. Performed the experiments: JJW JA MKS FPG YT KG GB. Analyzed the data: JJW BAP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA AMP LG PG VS AB KK EH. Wrote the paper: JJW BAP.