About the Authors

Catherine Tamera Travis

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Southern Nevada Health District, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Hernán D. Argibay

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Federal University of Bahia, Collective Health Institute, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Ministry of Health, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Maysa Pellizzaro

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Federal University of Bahia, Collective Health Institute, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Daiana de Oliveira

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Federal University of Bahia, Collective Health Institute, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Ministry of Health, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Roberta Santana

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Federal University of Bahia, Collective Health Institute, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Fabiana Almerinda G. Palma

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Federal University of Bahia, Collective Health Institute, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Ricardo Lustosa

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Geotechnologies Applied to Sciences, Federal University of Western Bahia, Barra, Bahia, Brazil

Juliet Oliveira Santana

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Federal University of Bahia, Collective Health Institute, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Ministry of Health, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Fábio Neves Souza

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration

Affiliations Federal University of Bahia, Collective Health Institute, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Ministry of Health, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Yeimi Alexandra Alzate López

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliation Federal University of Bahia, Collective Health Institute, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Mitermayer G. Reis

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Ministry of Health, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Faculty of Medicine of Bahia, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Albert I. Ko

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Ministry of Health, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Peter J. Diggle

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lancaster University, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Guilherme S. Ribeiro

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Ministry of Health, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Faculty of Medicine of Bahia, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Michael Begon

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Federico Costa

Contributed equally to this work with: Federico Costa, Hussein Khalil, Max T. Eyre

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

fcosta2001@gmail.com

Affiliations Federal University of Bahia, Collective Health Institute, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Ministry of Health, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Hussein Khalil

Contributed equally to this work with: Federico Costa, Hussein Khalil, Max T. Eyre

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden

Max T. Eyre

Contributed equally to this work with: Federico Costa, Hussein Khalil, Max T. Eyre

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environmental Health Group, Faculty of Infectious Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AIK has received funding from the National Institutes of Health for work related to Aedes aegypti in Brazil in a cluster-randomized trial to evaluate the efficacy of Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in reducing the incidence of arboviral infection in Brazil (EVITA Dengue) – DMID 17-0111. The authors have no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years and no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.