About the Authors

Giovanni Lo Iacono

gl334@cam.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, Disease Dynamics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Andrew A. Cunningham

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom

Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet

Affiliation Bernhard-Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Robert F. Garry

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Zalgen Labs, LLC, Germantown, Maryland, United States of America

Donald S. Grant

Affiliation Lassa Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Kenema, Sierra Leone

Sheik Humarr Khan

† Deceased.

Affiliation Lassa Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Kenema, Sierra Leone

Melissa Leach

Affiliation Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. Brighton, United Kingdom

Lina M. Moses

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

John S. Schieffelin

Affiliation Sections of Infectious Disease, Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Jeffrey G. Shaffer

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Colleen T. Webb

Affiliation Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

James L. N. Wood

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, Disease Dynamics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

RFG is affiliated with Zalgen Labs. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS NTDs policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GLI AAC EFC ML CTW JLNW. Performed the experiments: GLI CTW. Analyzed the data: GLI CTW. Wrote the paper: GL AAC EFC LMM ML CTW JLNW. Provided and processed the data from Kenema Governament Hospital: RFG DSG SHK LMM JSS JGS.