About the Authors

Matthew T. Aliota

Affiliation The Arbovirus Laboratories, New York State Department of Health Wadsworth Center, Slingerlands, New York, United States of America

Susan A. Jones

Affiliation The Arbovirus Laboratories, New York State Department of Health Wadsworth Center, Slingerlands, New York, United States of America

Alan P. Dupuis II

Affiliation The Arbovirus Laboratories, New York State Department of Health Wadsworth Center, Slingerlands, New York, United States of America

Alexander T. Ciota

Affiliation The Arbovirus Laboratories, New York State Department of Health Wadsworth Center, Slingerlands, New York, United States of America

Zdenek Hubalek

Affiliation Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic

Laura D. Kramer

kramer@wadsworth.org

Affiliations The Arbovirus Laboratories, New York State Department of Health Wadsworth Center, Slingerlands, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MTA ZH LDK. Performed the experiments: MTA SAJ APD ATC. Analyzed the data: MTA SAJ ZH LDK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZH LDK. Wrote the paper: MTA LDK ZH.