About the Authors

Rose M. Langsjoen

Contributed equally to this work with: Rose M. Langsjoen, Rebecca J. Rubinstein, Matthew Dacso, Scott C. Weaver

Affiliations Institute for Human Infections and Immunity and Center for Tropical Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Institute for Translational Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Rebecca J. Rubinstein

Contributed equally to this work with: Rose M. Langsjoen, Rebecca J. Rubinstein, Matthew Dacso, Scott C. Weaver

Affiliations Institute for Human Infections and Immunity and Center for Tropical Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Center for Global Health Education, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Tiffany F. Kautz

Affiliations Institute for Human Infections and Immunity and Center for Tropical Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Albert J. Auguste

Affiliations Institute for Human Infections and Immunity and Center for Tropical Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Jesse H. Erasmus

Affiliations Institute for Human Infections and Immunity and Center for Tropical Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Institute for Translational Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Liddy Kiaty-Figueroa

Affiliation Center for Global Health Education, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Renessa Gerhardt

Affiliation Center for Global Health Education, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

David Lin

Affiliation cBio Inc., Fremont, CA, United States of America

Kumar L. Hari

Affiliation cBio Inc., Fremont, CA, United States of America

Ravi Jain

Affiliation cBio Inc., Fremont, CA, United States of America

Nicolas Ruiz

Affiliation Center for Global Health Education, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Antonio E. Muruato

Affiliations Institute for Human Infections and Immunity and Center for Tropical Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Jael Silfa

Affiliation Hospital Dr. Francisco Gonzalvo, La Romana, Dominican Republic

Franklin Bido

Affiliation Hospital el Buen Samaritano, La Romana, Dominican Republic

Matthew Dacso

Contributed equally to this work with: Rose M. Langsjoen, Rebecca J. Rubinstein, Matthew Dacso, Scott C. Weaver

Affiliations Institute for Human Infections and Immunity and Center for Tropical Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Center for Global Health Education, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Scott C. Weaver

Contributed equally to this work with: Rose M. Langsjoen, Rebecca J. Rubinstein, Matthew Dacso, Scott C. Weaver

sweaver@utmb.edu

Affiliations Institute for Human Infections and Immunity and Center for Tropical Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

RJ and KLH are affiliated exclusively with cBio, and its employees have no other declarations relating to employment, consultancy, patents, or products either in development or currently marketed. DL was consulting exclusively for cBio and had no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SCW MD RML RJR. Performed the experiments: RML TFK JHE AEM RG NR AJA. Analyzed the data: RML AJA RJR DL KLH RJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RJR LKF JS FB. Wrote the paper: RML RJR MD SCW AJA TFK JHE. Assembled NGS sequences: DL KLH RJ.