About the Authors

Anna M. Afonso

anna.afonso87@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Mark H. Ebell

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Rick L. Tarleton

Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMA MHE RLT. Performed the experiments: AMA MHE. Analyzed the data: AMA MHE. Wrote the paper: AMA MHE RLT.