About the Authors

Jolene R. Bowers

Contributed equally to this work with: Jolene R. Bowers, Brandon Kitchel

jbowers@tgen.org

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

Brandon Kitchel

Contributed equally to this work with: Jolene R. Bowers, Brandon Kitchel

Affiliation Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Elizabeth M. Driebe

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

Duncan R. MacCannell

Affiliation Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Chandler Roe

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

Darrin Lemmer

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

Tom de Man

Affiliation Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

J. Kamile Rasheed

Affiliation Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

David M. Engelthaler

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

Paul Keim

‡ PK is joint senior author for genomics and BL is joint senior author for microbiology and epidemiology on this work.

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

Brandi M. Limbago

‡ PK is joint senior author for genomics and BL is joint senior author for microbiology and epidemiology on this work.

Affiliation Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JRB BK EMD DRM CR JKR DME PK BL. Performed the experiments: JRB BK CR DL TD. Analyzed the data: JRB BK EMD DRM CR DL TD JKR DME PK BL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DL TD JKR DME PK BL. Wrote the paper: JRB BK EMD DRM JKR DME PK BL.