About the Authors

Daniel Romero-Alvarez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

daromero88@gmail.com, da.romero@ku.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

A. Townsend Peterson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Johanna S. Salzer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bacterial Special Pathogens Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Claudia Pittiglio

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Animal Health Service, Animal Production and Health Division, Rome, Italy

Sean Shadomy

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Animal Health Service, Animal Production and Health Division, Rome, Italy, One Health Office, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Rita Traxler

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bacterial Special Pathogens Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Antonio R. Vieira

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bacterial Special Pathogens Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

William A. Bower

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bacterial Special Pathogens Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Henry Walke

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bacterial Special Pathogens Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Lindsay P. Campbell

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Department of Entomology and Nematology, IFAS | University of Florida, Vero Beach, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.