About the Authors

Zaurbek Sagiyev

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

zaurbeksagiyev@gmail.com, zsagiyev@kscqzd.kz

Affiliation M. Aikimbayev’s Kazakh Scientific Centre for Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Almas Berdibekov

Contributed equally to this work with: Almas Berdibekov, Tatyana Bolger, Almagul Merekenova, Svetlana Ashirova, Zamir Nurgozhin, Zhandos Dalibayev

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Taldyqorgan Anti-Plague Station, Taldyqorgan, Kazakhstan

Tatyana Bolger

Contributed equally to this work with: Almas Berdibekov, Tatyana Bolger, Almagul Merekenova, Svetlana Ashirova, Zamir Nurgozhin, Zhandos Dalibayev

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Taldyqorgan Anti-Plague Station, Taldyqorgan, Kazakhstan

Almagul Merekenova

Contributed equally to this work with: Almas Berdibekov, Tatyana Bolger, Almagul Merekenova, Svetlana Ashirova, Zamir Nurgozhin, Zhandos Dalibayev

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Taldyqorgan Anti-Plague Station, Taldyqorgan, Kazakhstan

Svetlana Ashirova

Contributed equally to this work with: Almas Berdibekov, Tatyana Bolger, Almagul Merekenova, Svetlana Ashirova, Zamir Nurgozhin, Zhandos Dalibayev

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Panfilov Regional Department of Public Health Protection, Zharkent, Kazakhstan

Zamir Nurgozhin

Contributed equally to this work with: Almas Berdibekov, Tatyana Bolger, Almagul Merekenova, Svetlana Ashirova, Zamir Nurgozhin, Zhandos Dalibayev

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Panfilov Regional National Center of Expertise, Zharkent, Kazakhstan

Zhandos Dalibayev

Contributed equally to this work with: Almas Berdibekov, Tatyana Bolger, Almagul Merekenova, Svetlana Ashirova, Zamir Nurgozhin, Zhandos Dalibayev

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Taldyqorgan Anti-Plague Station, Taldyqorgan, Kazakhstan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.