About the Authors

Angela Gentile

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

angelagentile21@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Ricardo Gutiérrez Children’s Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Maria Florencia Lucion

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Ricardo Gutiérrez Children’s Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Maria del Valle Juarez

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Ricardo Gutiérrez Children’s Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ana Clara Martinez

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Ricardo Gutiérrez Children’s Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Viviana Romanin

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Ricardo Gutiérrez Children’s Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Julia Bakir

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Ricardo Gutiérrez Children’s Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mariana Viegas

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology, Ricardo Gutiérrez Children’s Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Alicia Mistchenko

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology, Ricardo Gutiérrez Children’s Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Competing Interests

This study did not receive external financing except for editorial assistance, which was provided by Debaditya Das, PhD, and Robert Axford-Gatley, MD, of the GII Secretariat, PAREXEL International, Hackensack, NJ, USA. The GII Secretariat was funded by Sanofi Pasteur Inc., Swiftwater, PA, USA. Sanofi Pasteur did not contribute, review, or edit any content of this manuscript. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All authors have made substantial contributions to all of the following: (1) the conception and design of the study: Gentile A, Bakir J; acquisition of data: Lucion MF, Juarez MV, Martinez AC, Romanin V, Viegas M); analysis and interpretation of data: Lucion MF, Juarez MV, Martinez AC, Gentile A; (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content: all authors; (3) final approval of the version to be submitted: all authors.