About the Authors

Brian L. Weiss

brian.weiss@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jingwen Wang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Serap Aksoy

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

Serap Aksoy, coauthor on this manuscript, is also Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: BLW SA. Performed the experiments: BLW JW. Analyzed the data: BLW SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BLW SA. Wrote the paper: BLW SA.