About the Authors

Catherine A. Lippi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Quantitative Disease Ecology and Conservation (QDEC) Lab Group, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Anna M. Stewart-Ibarra

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Global Health and Translational Science, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

M. E. Franklin Bajaña Loor

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministerio de Salud Pública, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Jose E. Dueñas Zambrano

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministerio de Salud Pública, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Nelson A. Espinoza Lopez

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministerio de Salud Pública, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Jason K. Blackburn

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Spatial Epidemiology and Ecology Research (SEER) Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Sadie J. Ryan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sjryan@ufl.edu

Affiliations Quantitative Disease Ecology and Conservation (QDEC) Lab Group, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.