About the Authors

Leora Vegosen

lvegosen@jhsph.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Patrick N. Breysse

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Jacqueline Agnew

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Gregory C. Gray

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States of America

Irving Nachamkin

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Kazim Sheikh

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX, United States of America

Freya Kamel

Affiliation Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Research Triangle Park, NC, United States of America

Ellen Silbergeld

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LV PB JA GG FK ES. Performed the experiments: IN KS. Analyzed the data: LV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GG IN KS. Wrote the paper: LV PB JA IN FK ES.