About the Authors

Sivani Jonnalagadda

Affiliation Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Oswaldo Rodríguez

Affiliation Corporación Ecuatoriana de Biotecnología, Quito, Ecuador

Bertha Estrella

Affiliations Corporación Ecuatoriana de Biotecnología, Quito, Ecuador, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Escuela de Medicina, Quito, Ecuador

Lora L. Sabin

Affiliations Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Fernando Sempértegui

Affiliations Corporación Ecuatoriana de Biotecnología, Quito, Ecuador, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Escuela de Medicina, Quito, Ecuador

Davidson H. Hamer

dhamer@bu.edu

Affiliations Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FS BE OR DHH. Data curation: SJ BE. Formal analysis: SJ OR DHH. Funding acquisition: FS DHH. Investigation: FS BE OR. Methodology: FS BE OR DHH. Project administration: FS BE DHH. Resources: FS BE OR. Supervision: DHH FS. Validation: FS BE OR LLS DHH. Visualization: SJ. Writing – original draft: SJ OR DHH. Writing – review & editing: SJ OR BE LLS FS DHH.