About the Authors

Claudia V. Filomatori

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia V. Filomatori, Juan M. Carballeda

Affiliation Fundación Instituto Leloir-CONICET, Avenida Patricias Argentinas 435, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Juan M. Carballeda

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia V. Filomatori, Juan M. Carballeda

Affiliation Fundación Instituto Leloir-CONICET, Avenida Patricias Argentinas 435, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sergio M. Villordo

Affiliation Fundación Instituto Leloir-CONICET, Avenida Patricias Argentinas 435, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sebastian Aguirre

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Horacio M. Pallarés

Affiliation Fundación Instituto Leloir-CONICET, Avenida Patricias Argentinas 435, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ana M. Maestre

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Irma Sánchez-Vargas

Affiliation Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Carol D. Blair

Affiliation Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Cintia Fabri

Affiliation Departamento Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas "Dr. Julio I. Maiztegui", ANLIS, Pergamino, Argentina

Maria A. Morales

Affiliation Departamento Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas "Dr. Julio I. Maiztegui", ANLIS, Pergamino, Argentina

Ana Fernandez-Sesma

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Andrea V. Gamarnik

agamarnik@leloir.org.ar

Affiliation Fundación Instituto Leloir-CONICET, Avenida Patricias Argentinas 435, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CVF JMC SMV SA AFS AVG. Data curation: CVF JMC SMV SA AVG. Formal analysis: CVF JMC SMV AVG. Funding acquisition: AVG AFS. Investigation: CVF JMC SMV SA HMP AMM ISV CF MAM. Methodology: CVF JMC SMV SA ISV CDB. Project administration: CVF JMC SMV AVG. Resources: CF MAM ISV CDB AFS. Supervision: AVG. Visualization: CVF JMC SMV SA AVG. Writing – original draft: CVF JMC SMV AVG. Writing – review & editing: CVF JMC SMV AVG SA AFS CDB.