About the Authors

A. Marm Kilpatrick

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kilpatrick@conservationmedicine.org

Affiliation The Consortium for Conservation Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Laura D Kramer

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

Matthew J Jones

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

Peter P Marra

¤ Current address: Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, National Zoological Park, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Affiliation Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, United States of America

Peter Daszak

Affiliation The Consortium for Conservation Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

AMK, LDK, PPM, and PD conceived and designed the experiments. AMK, LDK, and MJJ performed the experiments. AMK and MJJ analyzed the data. AMK, LDK, and MJJ contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. AMK, LDK, PPM, and PD wrote the paper.