About the Authors

Danuta M. Skowronski

danuta.skowronski@bccdc.ca

Affiliations Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Services, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Flavia S. Moser

Affiliation Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Services, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada

Naveed Z. Janjua

Affiliations Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Services, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Bahman Davoudi

Affiliation School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Krista M. English

Affiliation School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Dale Purych

Affiliation BC Biomedical Laboratories Ltd, Surrey, Canada

Martin Petric

Affiliations Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Babak Pourbohloul

Affiliations Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Services, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Competing Interests

DP is a shareholder with BC Biomedical Laboratories Ltd. which contributed anonymized sera included in the original sero-prevalence surveys; however, he received no direct compensation for previous or current contributions to this H3N2v analysis. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Provided critical feedback and input for manuscript revision and approval: FSM NZJ BD KME DP MP BP. Conceived and designed the experiments: DMS FSM NZJ BP BD KME DP MP. Performed the experiments: FSM MP. Analyzed the data: DMS FSM NZJ BP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BD KME DP MP. Wrote the paper: DMS.