About the Authors

V. Alberto Laguna-Torres

alberto.laguna@med.navy.mil

Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Jorge Gómez

Affiliation Dirección General de Epidemiología del Ministerio de Salud del Perú, Lima, Peru

Víctor Ocaña

Affiliation Dirección Regional de Salud de Piura Ministerio de Salud del Perú, Piura, Peru

Patricia Aguilar

Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Tatiana Saldarriaga

Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Edward Chavez

Affiliation Centro Medico Militar Sullana, Piura, Peru

Juan Perez

Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Hernán Zamalloa

Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Brett Forshey

Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Irmia Paz

Affiliation Universidad Nacional de San Agustín, Arequipa, Peru

Elizabeth Gomez

Affiliations Universidad Nacional de San Agustín, Arequipa, Peru, Dirección Regional de Salud de Puno, Ministerio de Salud del Perú, Puno, Peru

Roel Ore

Affiliations Universidad Nacional de San Agustín, Arequipa, Peru, Dirección Regional de Salud de Puno, Ministerio de Salud del Perú, Puno, Peru

Gloria Chauca

Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Ernesto Ortiz

Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Manuel Villaran

Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Stalin Vilcarromero

Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Claudio Rocha

Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Omayra Chincha

Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Gerardo Jiménez

Affiliation Universidad Nacional de Ucayali, Pucallpa, Peru

Miguel Villanueva

Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Edwar Pozo

Affiliation Dirección Regional de Salud de Piura Ministerio de Salud del Perú, Piura, Peru

Jackeline Aspajo

Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Tadeusz Kochel

Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VALT JG KT. Performed the experiments: VO TS EC HZ IP EG OR GC SV CR OC GJ MV EP JA. Analyzed the data: VALT JG VO PVA TS EC JP HZ BF IP EG OR OE MVV CR OC GJ MV EP KT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PVA JP BF GC OE KT. Wrote the paper: VALT JG PVA KT. Principal investigator: VALT. Ministry of Health of Peru investigator: JG. Final approval of the version to be published: JG KT. Acquisition of data: VO TS EC IP EG OR SV CR OC GJ MV EP JA. Local analysis: VO TS EC IP EG OR SV CR OC GJ MV EP JA. Approval of the version to be published: VO TS EC. Critically revised the article: PVA BF. Approval of the data to be published: IP EG OR GJ EP. Senior laboratory supervisor: GC.