About the Authors

Toshie Manabe

Affiliation Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Anjarath Lorena Higuera Iglesias

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology Investigation, Research Institute, National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico City, Mexico

Maria Eugenia Vazquez Manriquez

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico City, Mexico

Eduarda Leticia Martinez Valadez

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico City, Mexico

Leticia Alfaro Ramos

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology Investigation, Research Institute, National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico City, Mexico

Shinyu Izumi

Affiliation Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Jin Takasaki

Affiliation Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Koichiro Kudo

kudo@dcc.go.jp

Affiliation Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TM ALHI KK. Performed the experiments: ALHI MEVM TM KK JT SI ELMV LAR. Analyzed the data: TM ALHI KK. Wrote the paper: TM KK.