About the Authors

Daniela de la Rosa-Zamboni

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniela de la Rosa-Zamboni, Joel A. Vázquez-Pérez, Santiago Ávila-Ríos

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico

Joel A. Vázquez-Pérez

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniela de la Rosa-Zamboni, Joel A. Vázquez-Pérez, Santiago Ávila-Ríos

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico

Santiago Ávila-Ríos

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniela de la Rosa-Zamboni, Joel A. Vázquez-Pérez, Santiago Ávila-Ríos

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico

Ana Paola Carranco-Arenas

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico

Christopher E. Ormsby

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico

Craig A. Cummings

Current address: Sequenta, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Life Technologies Corporation, Foster City, California, United States of America

Maribel Soto-Nava

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico

Víctor A. Hernández-Hernández

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico

Carmen O. Orozco-Sánchez

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico

Claudia Alvarado-de la Barrera

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico

Rogelio Pérez-Padilla

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico

Gustavo Reyes-Terán

gustavo.reyesteran@gmail.com

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico

Competing Interests

At the time of writing Craig A. Cummings was an employee at Life Technologies Corporation. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors declare that they do not have any competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DRZ JAVP RPP GRT. Performed the experiments: JAVP SAR MSN VHH COOS. Analyzed the data: DRZ JAVP SAR APCA CEO CAC GRT. Wrote the paper: DRZ JAVP SAR APCA CEO CAB GRT.