About the Authors

Stephany D. Villota

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Vectoriales (CIREV), Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública (INSPI), Quito, Ecuador, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas y Bienestar. Universidad Iberoamericana del Ecuador – UNIB.E, Quito, Ecuador

Eliana Veloz-Villavicencio

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Vectoriales (CIREV), Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública (INSPI), Quito, Ecuador, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida y la Agricultura, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador

Santiago Garcia-Iturralde

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Vectoriales (CIREV), Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública (INSPI), Quito, Ecuador, Escuela de Enfermería, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador

Johanna Valentina Arévalo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Vectoriales (CIREV), Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública (INSPI), Quito, Ecuador

Suying Lu

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Sinai Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Katariina Jaenes

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Yuxiu Guo

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliations Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, LSK Technologies Inc., Kitchener, Canada

Seray Cicek

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliations Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, LSK Technologies Inc., Kitchener, Canada

Karen Colwill

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Sinai Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Anne-Claude Gingras

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Sinai Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rod Bremner

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Sinai Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Patricio Ponce

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Vectoriales (CIREV), Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública (INSPI), Quito, Ecuador

Keith Pardee

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

Affiliations Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, LSK Technologies Inc., Kitchener, Canada, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Varsovia Enid Cevallos

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

vcevallos@inspi.gob.ec

Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Vectoriales (CIREV), Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública (INSPI), Quito, Ecuador

Competing Interests

Yuxiu Guo, Seray Cicek, and Keith Pardee are co-inventors of the PLUM device and co-founders of LSK Technologies, Inc. (acquired by Nicoya Life Science Inc.). Testing and data analysis was performed independently by the team in Ecuador without input from these authors. No other commercial declarations are relevant to this study. Anne-Claude Gingras receives funds from a research contract with Providence Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. for other projects. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.