About the Authors

Sonia M. Hernandez

shernz@uga.edu

Affiliations Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Catharine N. Welch

Affiliation Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Valerie E. Peters

Affiliation Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Department of Zoology, Miami University, Columbia, Ohio, United States of America

Erin K. Lipp

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Science, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Shannon Curry

Affiliation Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Michael J. Yabsley

Affiliations Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Susan Sanchez

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Andrea Presotto

Affiliation Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Peter Gerner-Smidt

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Kelley B. Hise

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Elizabeth Hammond

Affiliation Lion Country Safari Park, Loxahatchee, Florida, United States of America

Whitney M. Kistler

Affiliation Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Marguerite Madden

Affiliation Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

April L. Conway

Current address: April Conway, Earle Cabell Federal Building, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Tiffany Kwan

Affiliation Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

John J. Maurer

Affiliation Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SMH MJY SS. Data curation: SMH JJM SS. Formal analysis: VEP. Funding acquisition: SMH EKL. Investigation: SMH MJY CNW SC PGS JJM SS AP KBH EH WMK MM ALC TK. Methodology: SMH CNW. Project administration: SMH. Resources: JJM EKL SS SMH PGS AP MM. Software: VEP. Supervision: SMH. Validation: JJM. Visualization: VEP JJM. Writing – original draft: SMH JJM EKL VEP. Writing – review & editing: SMH JJM EKL SS VEP CNW SC.