About the Authors

Diego H. Farizano Salazar

Contributed equally to this work with: Diego H. Farizano Salazar, Fernando Achinelli

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Hospital de Campaña Escuela Hogar, Corrientes, Corrientes, Argentina

Fernando Achinelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Diego H. Farizano Salazar, Fernando Achinelli

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hospital de Campaña Escuela Hogar, Corrientes, Corrientes, Argentina

Mariana Colonna

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Inmunova S.A., Gral. San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Lucía Pérez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Research, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Analía A. Giménez

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Hospital de Campaña Escuela Hogar, Corrientes, Corrientes, Argentina

Maria Alejandra Ojeda

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Hospital de Campaña Escuela Hogar, Corrientes, Corrientes, Argentina

Susana N. Miranda Puente

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Hospital de Campaña Escuela Hogar, Corrientes, Corrientes, Argentina

Lía Sánchez Negrette

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Hospital de Campaña Escuela Hogar, Corrientes, Corrientes, Argentina

Florencia Cañete

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Hospital de Campaña Escuela Hogar, Corrientes, Corrientes, Argentina

Ornela I. Martelotte Ibarra

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Hospital de Campaña Escuela Hogar, Corrientes, Corrientes, Argentina

Santiago Sanguineti

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Inmunova S.A., Gral. San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Linus Spatz

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology

Affiliation Inmunova S.A., Gral. San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Fernando A. Goldbaum

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

Affiliations Inmunova S.A., Gral. San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina, Fundación Instituto Leloir, IIBBA-CONICET. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina, CRIP—Centro de Rediseño e Ingeniería de Proteínas UNSAM Campus Miguelete, Gral. San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Carolina Massa

Roles Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Inmunova S.A., Gral. San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Marta Rivas

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Inmunova S.A., Gral. San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mariana Pichel

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Inmunova S.A., Gral. San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Yanina Hiriart

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Inmunova S.A., Gral. San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina

Vanesa Zylberman

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Inmunova S.A., Gral. San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina

Sandra Gallego

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina, Instituto de Virología Dr. José María Vanella, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

Brenda Konigheim

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina, Instituto de Virología Dr. José María Vanella, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

Francisco Fernández

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Laboratorio Elea Phoenix S.A., Los Polvorines, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Matías Deprati

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Software

Affiliation Laboratorio Elea Phoenix S.A., Los Polvorines, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ian Roubicek

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

Affiliation Inmunova S.A., Gral. San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Diego H. Giunta

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

Affiliations Department of Research, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina

Esteban Nannini

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

Affiliations Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina, Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Sanatorio Británico, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

Gustavo Lopardo

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

Affiliations Hospital Municipal Dr. Bernardo Houssay, Florida, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Fundación del Centro de Estudios Infectológicos (FUNCEI), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Waldo H. Belloso

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

waldo.belloso@hospitalitaliano.org.ar

Affiliation Department of Research, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

on behalf of EPIC Study Group

Membership of the EPIC Study Group is provided in Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

DHFS, FA, AAG, NAO, SNMP, LSN, FC, OIMI declare reimbursement for conduction of the observational study as investigators. EN, GL, WHB, DHG and LP report personal fees from Inmunova. SG and BK declare no competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.