About the Authors

Kentaro Tohma

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Viral Products, CBER, FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Cara J. Lepore

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Viral Products, CBER, FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Magaly Martinez

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Viral Products, CBER, FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, IICS, National University of Asuncion, Asuncion, Paraguay

Juan I. Degiuseppe

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation INEI-ANLIS, Ministry of Health, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Pattara Khamrin

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Mayuko Saito

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Holger Mayta

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Amy U. Amanda Nwaba

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Viral Products, CBER, FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Lauren A. Ford-Siltz

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Viral Products, CBER, FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Kim Y. Green

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Maria E. Galeano

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation IICS, National University of Asuncion, Asuncion, Paraguay

Mirko Zimic

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Juan A. Stupka

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation INEI-ANLIS, Ministry of Health, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Robert H. Gilman

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Niwat Maneekarn

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Hiroshi Ushijima

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Gabriel I. Parra

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gabriel.parra@fda.hhs.gov

Affiliation Division of Viral Products, CBER, FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.