About the Authors

Germán Añez

Contributed equally to this work with: Germán Añez, Andriyan Grinev

german.anez@fda.hhs.gov (GA); andriyan.grinev@fda.hhs.gov (AG); maria.rios@fda.hhs.gov (MR)

Affiliation Laboratory of Emerging Pathogens, DETTD/OBRR/CBER, US Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Andriyan Grinev

Contributed equally to this work with: Germán Añez, Andriyan Grinev

german.anez@fda.hhs.gov (GA); andriyan.grinev@fda.hhs.gov (AG); maria.rios@fda.hhs.gov (MR)

Affiliation Laboratory of Emerging Pathogens, DETTD/OBRR/CBER, US Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Caren Chancey

Affiliation Laboratory of Emerging Pathogens, DETTD/OBRR/CBER, US Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Christopher Ball

Affiliation Idaho Bureau of Laboratories, Boise, Idaho, United States of America

Namita Akolkar

Affiliation Laboratory of Emerging Pathogens, DETTD/OBRR/CBER, US Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kevin J. Land

Affiliation Bonfils Blood Center, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Valerie Winkelman

Affiliation Creative Testing Solutions, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Susan L. Stramer

Affiliation American Red Cross, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Laura D. Kramer

Affiliation New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, and School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Maria Rios

german.anez@fda.hhs.gov (GA); andriyan.grinev@fda.hhs.gov (AG); maria.rios@fda.hhs.gov (MR)

Affiliation Laboratory of Emerging Pathogens, DETTD/OBRR/CBER, US Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GA AG MR. Performed the experiments: GA AG CC NA. Analyzed the data: GA AG MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CB KJL VW SLS LDK. Wrote the paper: GA AG MR.