About the Authors

Somphavanh Somlor

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Current address: Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Affiliation Institut de la Francophonie pour la Médecine Tropicale, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Khamsing Vongpayloth

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Laure Diancourt

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

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Pôle de Génotypage des Pathogènes, Paris, France

Philippe Buchy

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines R&D, Singapore, Singapore

Affiliation Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Veasna Duong

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Darouny Phonekeo

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation

Current address: Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Affiliation National Center for Laboratory and Epidemiology, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Pakapak Ketmayoon

Roles Investigation, Validation

Current address: WHO Country Office, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Affiliation National Center for Laboratory and Epidemiology, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Phengta Vongphrachanh

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation National Center for Laboratory and Epidemiology, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Paul T. Brey

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Valérie Caro

Contributed equally to this work with: Valérie Caro, Yves Buisson

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Pôle de Génotypage des Pathogènes, Paris, France

Yves Buisson

Contributed equally to this work with: Valérie Caro, Yves Buisson

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut de la Francophonie pour la Médecine Tropicale, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Marc Grandadam

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

m.grandadam@pasteur.la

Affiliation Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Competing Interests

All authors excepted Dr Philippe Buchy, declared no competing interests. Dr Philippe Buchy is currently an employee of GSK Vaccines but this position has no link with the work presented here. This does not alter the adherence of all authors to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.