About the Authors

Gustavo Palacios

Contributed equally to this work with: Gustavo Palacios, Mady Hornig

gp2050@columbia.edu (GP); wil2001@columbia.edu (WIL)

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Mady Hornig

Contributed equally to this work with: Gustavo Palacios, Mady Hornig

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Daniel Cisterna

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Administracion Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nazir Savji

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Ana Valeria Bussetti

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Vishal Kapoor

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jeffrey Hui

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Rafal Tokarz

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Thomas Briese

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Elsa Baumeister

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Administracion Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

W. Ian Lipkin

gp2050@columbia.edu (GP); wil2001@columbia.edu (WIL)

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GP DC WIL. Performed the experiments: NS AVB VK JH. Analyzed the data: GP MH NS TB WIL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC RT TB EB. Wrote the paper: GP MH DC EB WIL.