About the Authors

Yekaterina Bumburidi

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

hnz6@cdc.gov

Affiliation Central Asian Regional Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Gulmira Utepbergenova

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Shymkent City Infectious Disease Hospital–Regional Department of Health Care, Southern Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan, Shymkent, Department of Infectious Diseases and Phthisiatry, Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, Kazakhstan, Turkestan

Bakhtygali Yerezhepov

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Shymkent City Infectious Disease Hospital–Regional Department of Health Care, Southern Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan, Shymkent

Nursulu Berdiyarova

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Shymkent City Infectious Disease Hospital–Regional Department of Health Care, Southern Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan, Shymkent

Kaldikul Kulzhanova

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Shymkent City Infectious Disease Hospital–Regional Department of Health Care, Southern Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan, Shymkent

Jennifer Head

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Division of Global Health Protection, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America, Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA, United States of America, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, Washington DC, United States of America

Daphne Moffett

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Central Asian Regional Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Division of Global Health Protection, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Daniel Singer

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Central Asian Regional Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Division of Global Health Protection, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Pawan Angra

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

Affiliation Division of Global Health Protection, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Toni Whistler

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Global Health Protection, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

James Sejvar

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.