About the Authors

Jason W. Sahl

jasonsahl@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Pathogen Genomics, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Christopher J. Allender

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Rebecca E. Colman

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Genomics, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Katy J. Califf

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

James M. Schupp

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Genomics, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Bart J. Currie

Affiliation Department of Tropical and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Menzies School of Health Research, Casuarina NT, Australia

Kristopher E. Van Zandt

Affiliation Battelle Biomedical Research Center (BBRC), Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

H. Carl Gelhaus

Affiliation Battelle Biomedical Research Center (BBRC), Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Paul Keim

Affiliations Department of Pathogen Genomics, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Apichai Tuanyok

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, and Pacific Center for Emerging Infections Diseases Research, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JWS PK AT HCG JMS. Performed the experiments: KEV REC. Analyzed the data: CJA KJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JWS PK KEV BJC. Wrote the paper: JWS.