About the Authors

Beatriz Sierra

Contributed equally to this work with: Beatriz Sierra, Petr Triska

Siebet@ipk.sld.cu (BS); luisap@ipatimup.pt (LP)

Affiliation Virology Department, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and its Vector, Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK),Havana, Cuba

Petr Triska

Contributed equally to this work with: Beatriz Sierra, Petr Triska

Affiliations i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto, Portugal, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Pedro Soares

Affiliation Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto, Portugal

Gissel Garcia

Affiliation Virology Department, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and its Vector, Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK),Havana, Cuba

Ana B. Perez

Affiliation Virology Department, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and its Vector, Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK),Havana, Cuba

Eglys Aguirre

Affiliation Virology Department, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and its Vector, Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK),Havana, Cuba

Marisa Oliveira

Affiliations i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto, Portugal, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Eukaryote Genotyping Platform, Genopole Pasteur Institute, Paris, France, Functional Genetics of Infectious Diseases Unit, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Bruno Cavadas

Affiliations i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto, Portugal

Béatrice Regnault

Affiliation Eukaryote Genotyping Platform, Genopole Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Mayling Alvarez

Affiliation Virology Department, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and its Vector, Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK),Havana, Cuba

Didye Ruiz

Affiliation Virology Department, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and its Vector, Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK),Havana, Cuba

David C. Samuels

Affiliation Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Anavaj Sakuntabhai

Affiliation Functional Genetics of Infectious Diseases Unit, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Luisa Pereira

Siebet@ipk.sld.cu (BS); luisap@ipatimup.pt (LP)

Affiliations i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto, Portugal, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (FMUP), Porto, Portugal

Maria G. Guzman

Affiliation Virology Department, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and its Vector, Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK),Havana, Cuba

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BS AS LP MGG. Data curation: BS PT PS MO BC BR DCS LP. Formal analysis: PT PS MO BC DCS LP. Funding acquisition: BS AS LP MGG. Investigation: BS GG ABP EA BR MA DR. Methodology: BS PS DCS LP. Project administration: BS LP. Resources: BS PT PS GG ABP EA MO BC BR MA DR DCS AS LP MGG. Software: PT PS MO BC DCS LP. Supervision: BS AS LP MGG. Validation: BS LP. Visualization: BS PT BC MO. Writing – original draft: BS LP. Writing – review & editing: BS PT PS GG ABP EA MO BC BR MA DR DCS AS LP MGG.