About the Authors

James Jiang

Affiliation National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Baoming Jiang

Affiliation National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Umesh Parashar

Affiliation National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Trang Nguyen

Affiliation The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam

Julie Bines

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Manish M. Patel

mpatel@cdc.gov

Affiliation National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BJ UP TN JB MP. Performed the experiments: JJ MP. Analyzed the data: JJ MP. Wrote the paper: MP. Design, data review, data interpretation and manuscript review: BJ UP TN JB.