About the Authors

Magelda Montoya

Contributed equally to this work with: Magelda Montoya, Lionel Gresh

Affiliations Laboratorio Nacional de Virología, Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico y Referencia, Ministry of Health, Managua, Nicaragua, Sustainable Sciences Institute, Managua, Nicaragua

Lionel Gresh

Contributed equally to this work with: Magelda Montoya, Lionel Gresh

Affiliation Sustainable Sciences Institute, Managua, Nicaragua

Juan Carlos Mercado

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

Katherine L. Williams

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

Maria José Vargas

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

Gamaliel Gutierrez

Affiliation Sustainable Sciences Institute, Managua, Nicaragua

Guillermina Kuan

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

Aubree Gordon

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

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: MM LG KLW GK AG AB EH. Performed the experiments: MM JCM KLW MJV. Analyzed the data: MM LG JCM KLW MJV GG AG AB EH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB EH. Wrote the paper: MM LG EH.