About the Authors

Ryan Choi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Disease (CERID), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Matthew A. Hulverson

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Disease (CERID), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Deborah A. Schaefer

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Dana P. Betzer

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Michael W. Riggs

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Wenlin Huang

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington United States of America

Vicky Sun

Roles Formal analysis, Resources

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington United States of America

Grant R. Whitman

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Disease (CERID), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Molly C. McCloskey

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Disease (CERID), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kennan Marsh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Research and Development, AbbVie Inc, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Wayne R. Buck

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, AbbVie Inc, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

David S. Wagner

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, AbbVie Inc, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Junhai Yang

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Research and Development, AbbVie Inc, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Andrew P. Bowman

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Research and Development, AbbVie Inc, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Rita Ciurlionis

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Research and Development, AbbVie Inc, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jubilee Ajiboye

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliations Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont United States of America, Institute of Parasitology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Andrew Hemphill

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Dilep K. Sigalapalli

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington United States of America

Samuel L.M. Arnold

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington United States of America

Lynn K. Barrett

Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Disease (CERID), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kayode K. Ojo

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Disease (CERID), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Erkang Fan

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington United States of America

Wesley C. Van Voorhis

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

wesley@uw.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Disease (CERID), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: W.C.V.V. is the president of ParaTheraTech Inc, a company involved with developing BKIs for use in animal health. The following authors are members of an advocacy group, called "Cryptosporidiosis Therapeutics Advocacy Group" or CTAG: R.C., M.A.H., D.A.S., D.P.B., M.W.R., S.L.M.A., L.K.B., K.K.O., E.F., and W.C.V.V. CTAG is advocating to increase knowledge of the human toll of Cryptosporidiosis, to add Cryptosporidiosis to the Neglected Tropical Diseases list at the WHO, and to the US FDA Priority Review Voucher program. These competing interests will not alter adherence to PLOS policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors declare that they hold no competing interests.