About the Authors

Elba Caraballo

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ecaraballo@cccupr.org

Affiliation University of Puerto Rico, UPR- Comprehensive Cancer Center(UPRCCC), Division of Cancer Biology, San Juan, Puerto Rico

B. Katherine Poole-Smith

Contributed equally to this work with: B. Katherine Poole-Smith, Kay M. Tomashek, Brenda Torres-Velasquez, Luisa I. Alvarado, Olga D. Lorenzi, Carmen Ramos, Jessica Carrión, Elizabeth Hunsperger

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS), Bangkok, Thailand

Kay M. Tomashek

Contributed equally to this work with: B. Katherine Poole-Smith, Kay M. Tomashek, Brenda Torres-Velasquez, Luisa I. Alvarado, Olga D. Lorenzi, Carmen Ramos, Jessica Carrión, Elizabeth Hunsperger

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID), Office of Clinical Research Resources (OCRR)

Brenda Torres-Velasquez

Contributed equally to this work with: B. Katherine Poole-Smith, Kay M. Tomashek, Brenda Torres-Velasquez, Luisa I. Alvarado, Olga D. Lorenzi, Carmen Ramos, Jessica Carrión, Elizabeth Hunsperger

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Vector Borne Diseases, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Luisa I. Alvarado

Contributed equally to this work with: B. Katherine Poole-Smith, Kay M. Tomashek, Brenda Torres-Velasquez, Luisa I. Alvarado, Olga D. Lorenzi, Carmen Ramos, Jessica Carrión, Elizabeth Hunsperger

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ponce Health Science University, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Olga D. Lorenzi

Contributed equally to this work with: B. Katherine Poole-Smith, Kay M. Tomashek, Brenda Torres-Velasquez, Luisa I. Alvarado, Olga D. Lorenzi, Carmen Ramos, Jessica Carrión, Elizabeth Hunsperger

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Vector Borne Diseases, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Carmen Ramos

Contributed equally to this work with: B. Katherine Poole-Smith, Kay M. Tomashek, Brenda Torres-Velasquez, Luisa I. Alvarado, Olga D. Lorenzi, Carmen Ramos, Jessica Carrión, Elizabeth Hunsperger

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Vector Borne Diseases, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Jessica Carrión

Contributed equally to this work with: B. Katherine Poole-Smith, Kay M. Tomashek, Brenda Torres-Velasquez, Luisa I. Alvarado, Olga D. Lorenzi, Carmen Ramos, Jessica Carrión, Elizabeth Hunsperger

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Vector Borne Diseases, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Elizabeth Hunsperger

Contributed equally to this work with: B. Katherine Poole-Smith, Kay M. Tomashek, Brenda Torres-Velasquez, Luisa I. Alvarado, Olga D. Lorenzi, Carmen Ramos, Jessica Carrión, Elizabeth Hunsperger

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation CDC, Division of Global Health Protection, Epidemiology, Surveillance, Informatics, and Laboratory Branch, CDC-Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.