About the Authors

Jeffrey W. Koehler

Affiliation Diagnostic Systems Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Adrienne T. Hall

Affiliation Diagnostic Systems Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

P. Alexander Rolfe

Affiliation Pathogenica, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anna N. Honko

Affiliation Virology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Gustavo F. Palacios

Affiliation Center for Genomic Sciences, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Joseph N. Fair

Affiliation Metabiota, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jean-Jacques Muyembe

Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Prime Mulembekani

Affiliation Kinshasa School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Randal J. Schoepp

Affiliation Diagnostic Systems Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Adeyemi Adesokan

Affiliation Pathogenica, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Timothy D. Minogue

timothy.d.minogue.civ@mail.mil

Affiliation Diagnostic Systems Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

At the time of this study, PAR and AA were employees of Pathogenica, Inc. and JNF was an employee of Metabiota, Inc. Otherwise, the authors have declared that no competing interests exit. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JWK ATH PAR ANH GFP JNF JJM PM RJS AA TDM. Performed the experiments: ATH PAR ANH JJM. Analyzed the data: JWK ATH ANH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: JWK ATH PAR ANH JNF TDM.