About the Authors

Jeffrey W. Mercante

Affiliation Pneumonia Response and Surveillance Laboratory, Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Shatavia S. Morrison

Affiliation Pneumonia Response and Surveillance Laboratory, Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Heta P. Desai

Affiliation Pneumonia Response and Surveillance Laboratory, Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Brian H. Raphael

Affiliation Pneumonia Response and Surveillance Laboratory, Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jonas M. Winchell

jwinchell@cdc.gov

Affiliation Pneumonia Response and Surveillance Laboratory, Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JWM SSM BHR JMW. Data curation: JWM. Formal analysis: JWM SSM HPD. Funding acquisition: JMW. Investigation: JWM. Methodology: JWM JMW BHR SSM. Project administration: JWM JMW. Resources: JMW. Software: SSM HPD. Supervision: BHR JMW. Visualization: JWM. Writing – original draft: JWM. Writing – review & editing: SSM HPD BHR JMW.