About the Authors

Maureen H. Diaz

Affiliation Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Heta P. Desai

Affiliation Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Shatavia S. Morrison

Affiliation Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Alvaro J. Benitez

Affiliation Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Bernard J. Wolff

Affiliation Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jason Caravas

Affiliation Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Timothy D. Read

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Deborah Dean

Affiliations Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Research, University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America, Joint Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California San Francisco and University of California Berkeley, Oakland, California, United States of America

Jonas M. Winchell

zdx2@cdc.gov

Affiliation Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, 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: MHD SSM JMW. Data curation: HPD SSM JC. Formal analysis: HPD SSM JC. Funding acquisition: TDR DD JMW. Investigation: MHD HPD SSM AJB BJW JC. Methodology: MHD HPD SSM AJB BJW JC JMW. Project administration: MHD JMW. Software: HPD SSM JC. Supervision: MHD JMW. Validation: MHD HPD SSM. Visualization: MHD HPD SSM. Writing – original draft: MHD HPD SSM JMW. Writing – review & editing: MHD HPD SSM TDR DD JMW.