About the Authors

Peninah M. Munyua

Affiliation Global Disease Detection Division, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

R. Mbabu Murithi

Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Nairobi, Kenya

Peter Ithondeka

Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Nairobi, Kenya

Allen Hightower

Affiliation Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Samuel M. Thumbi

Affiliation Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Samuel A. Anyangu

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya

Jusper Kiplimo

Affiliation International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Bernard Bett

Affiliation International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Anton Vrieling

Affiliation Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

Robert F. Breiman

Affiliation Global Disease Detection Division, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

M. Kariuki Njenga

Knjenga@kemri.org

Current address: Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

Affiliation Global Disease Detection Division, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PMM, MKN, BB, PI, RFB, SMT. Performed the experiments: BB, AH, JK, AV, SAA. Analyzed the data: AH, BB, PMM, MKN, RMM, AV, JK, SAA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BB, AH, RMM. Wrote the paper: RFB, PMM, MKN, BB, AH.