About the Authors
- Rebekah H. Borse
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft
Current address: Merck & Co, Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America
Affiliation Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Charisma Y. Atkins
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Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Manoj Gambhir
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Current address: Monash University, Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, Melbourne, Australia
Affiliation Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Eduardo A. Undurraga
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Current address: Escuela de Gobierno, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile
Affiliation Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Jesse D. Blanton
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Poxvirus And Rabies Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Emily B. Kahn
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Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Jessie L. Dyer
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Poxvirus And Rabies Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Charles E. Rupprecht
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Current address: The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Affiliation Poxvirus And Rabies Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Martin I. Meltzer
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: MMeltzer@cdc.gov
Affiliation Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. All authors contributed to this work whilst employees of the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). One author (RHB) now works at Merck, Inc. Another author (CER) is affiliated with the Wistar Institute. Both of these authors completed their contributions to this paper, except for reading of the final draft, before they left the U.S. CDC.