About the Authors

A. Marm Kilpatrick

Affiliations Consortium for Conservation Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Mark A. Meola

Affiliation Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Slingerlands, New York, United States of America

Robin M. Moudy

Affiliation Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Slingerlands, New York, United States of America

Laura D. Kramer

Kramer@wadsworth.org

Affiliations Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Slingerlands, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RM LK. Performed the experiments: MM RM LK. Analyzed the data: AK LK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK LK. Wrote the paper: AK RM LK.