About the Authors

Lily Soto

Contributed equally to this work with: Lily Soto, Yoneira F. Sulbaran

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

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical, UCV, Caracas, Venezuela

Yoneira F. Sulbaran

Contributed equally to this work with: Lily Soto, Yoneira F. Sulbaran

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

Affiliation Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, CMBC, IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela

Rossana C. Jaspe

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, CMBC, IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela

Francisco Ureña

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hospital Regional Universitario Dr. Luis Manuel Morillo King, Especialista en Infectología, La Vega, República Dominicana

Yoel Garcia

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hospital Regional Presidente Estrella Ureña, Santiago, República Dominicana

Carmen Luisa Loureiro

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

Affiliation Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, CMBC, IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela

Héctor R. Rangel

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

hrangel2006@gmail.com (HRR); fhpujol@gmail.com (FHP)

Affiliation Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, CMBC, IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela

Flor H. Pujol

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hrangel2006@gmail.com (HRR); fhpujol@gmail.com (FHP)

Affiliation Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, CMBC, IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.