About the Authors

Derrick Hau

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Brian Wade

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Chris Lovejoy

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Sujata G. Pandit

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Dana E. Reed

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Haley L. DeMers

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Heather R. Green

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Emily E. Hannah

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Megan E. McLarty

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Cameron J. Creek

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Chonnikarn Chokapirat

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Jose Arias-Umana

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Garett F. Cecchini

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Teerapat Nualnoi

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Marcellene A. Gates-Hollingsworth

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Peter N. Thorkildson

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Kathryn J. Pflughoeft

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

David P. AuCoin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

daucoin@med.unr.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: The goal of this research funded by Naval Research Laboratory contract ND0173-16-C-2003 and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) contract HDTRA1-16-C-0026 was to develop a diagnostic for plague. Currently the project is funded to transition these prototypes into an FDA approved diagnostic for plague through the MCDC contract # MCDC OTA W15QKN-16-9-1002.