About the Authors

Martha I. Nelson

Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Simon Pollett

spollett@med.usyd.edu.au

Affiliations Virology and Emerging Infections Department, United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6, Callao, Peru, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Bruno Ghersi

Affiliation Virology and Emerging Infections Department, United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6, Callao, Peru

Maria Silva

Affiliation Virology and Emerging Infections Department, United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6, Callao, Peru

Mark P. Simons

Affiliation Virology and Emerging Infections Department, United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6, Callao, Peru

Eliana Icochea

Affiliation Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, School of Veterinary Medicine, San Borja, Lima, Peru

Armando E. Gonzalez

Affiliation Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, School of Veterinary Medicine, San Borja, Lima, Peru

Karen Segovia

Affiliation Virology and Emerging Infections Department, United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6, Callao, Peru

Matthew R. Kasper

Affiliation Virology and Emerging Infections Department, United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6, Callao, Peru

Joel M. Montgomery

Affiliation Virology and Emerging Infections Department, United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6, Callao, Peru

Daniel G. Bausch

Affiliations Virology and Emerging Infections Department, United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6, Callao, Peru, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MN BG EI AG MK DB JM. Performed the experiments: MN BG MPS KS. Analyzed the data: MN SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS KS. Wrote the paper: MN BG EI AG MK DB JM MS MPS KS.