About the Authors

Thiago Moreno L. Souza

Contributed equally to this work with: Thiago Moreno L. Souza, Jorge I. F. Salluh

tmoreno@ioc.fiocruz.br (TMLS); mmsiq@ioc.fiocruz.br (MMS)

Affiliation Laboratório de vírus respiratórios e do sarampo, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Jorge I. F. Salluh

Contributed equally to this work with: Thiago Moreno L. Souza, Jorge I. F. Salluh

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Hospital do Câncer-I/INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fernando A. Bozza

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Instituto de Pesquisas Evandro Chagas/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Milene Mesquita

Affiliation Laboratório de vírus respiratórios e do sarampo, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Márcio Soares

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Hospital do Câncer-I/INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fernando C. Motta

Affiliation Laboratório de vírus respiratórios e do sarampo, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Melissa Tassano Pitrowsky

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Hospital do Câncer-I/INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Maria de Lourdes Oliveira

Affiliation Laboratório de vírus respiratórios e do sarampo, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Vasiliy P. Mishin

Affiliation Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases/Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Larissa V. Gubareva

Affiliation Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases/Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Anne Whitney

Affiliation Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases/Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Sandra Amaral Rocco

Affiliation Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital de Câncer-I/INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Vânia Maria C. Gonçalves

Affiliation Infection Control Committee and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital de Câncer-I/INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Venceslaine Prado Marques

Affiliation Infection Control Committee and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital de Câncer-I/INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Eduardo Velasco

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Infection Control Committee and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital de Câncer-I/INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Marilda M. Siqueira

tmoreno@ioc.fiocruz.br (TMLS); mmsiq@ioc.fiocruz.br (MMS)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratório de vírus respiratórios e do sarampo, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TMLS JIFS FAB MTP VPM LVG AW SR VPM EV MMS. Performed the experiments: TMLS JIFS MM MS FCM MTP MdLO VPM LVG AW SR VPM EV. Analyzed the data: TMLS JIFS FAB MM MS FCM MTP MdLO VPM LVG AW SR VMCG VPM EV MMS. Wrote the paper: TMLS JIFS FAB MTP MMS.