About the Authors

Kimberly Bloom-Feshbach

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Wladimir J. Alonso

Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Vivek Charu

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

James Tamerius

Affiliation The Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Lone Simonsen

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Global Health, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Mark A. Miller

Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Cécile Viboud

viboudc@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Cécile Viboud is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KBF VC CV. Performed the experiments: KBF VC CV. Analyzed the data: KBF VC WJA CV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JT. Wrote the paper: KBF WJA VC JT MAM LS CV.