About the Authors

Fredrick Eyase

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

fredrickeyase2012@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, Center for Virus Research-Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, Institute for Biotechnology Research-Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Juja, Kenya

Solomon Langat

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

Affiliation Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

Irina Maljkovic Berry

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Francis Mulwa

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

Affiliation Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

Albert Nyunja

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

Affiliation Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

James Mutisya

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

Samuel Owaka

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

Samson Limbaso

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, Center for Virus Research-Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Victor Ofula

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

Hellen Koka

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

Edith Koskei

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

Joel Lutomiah

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, Center for Virus Research-Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Richard G. Jarman

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Rosemary Sang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, Center for Virus Research-Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.