About the Authors

Horacio Gil

Contributed equally to this work with: Horacio Gil, Aurora Fernández-García

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

Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain, European Program for Public Health Microbiology Training (EUPHEM), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Solna, Sweden

Aurora Fernández-García

Contributed equally to this work with: Horacio Gil, Aurora Fernández-García

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

aurorafg@externos.isciii.es

Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

María Mar Mosquera

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

Judith M. Hübschen

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WHO European Regional Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella, Department of Infection and Immunity, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Ana M. Castellanos

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

Fernando de Ory

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

Josefa Masa-Calles

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

Affiliations CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, Centro Nacional de Epidemiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Juan E. Echevarría

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

Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.