About the Authors

Gillian Eastwood

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Current address: Center for Vector Biology & Zoonotic Diseases, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

Jeremy V. Camp

Roles Formal analysis

Current address: Institute of Virology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States of America

Yong Kyu Chu

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States of America

Aubrey M. Sawyer

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

Robert D. Owen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations Centro para el Desarrollo de la Investigación Científica, Asunción, Paraguay, Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States of America

Xueyuan Cao

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Nursing-Acute/Tertiary Care, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Mariah K. Taylor

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Leonardo Valdivieso-Torres

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

Richard D. Sage

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sociedad Naturalista Andino Patagónica (SNAP), Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina

Ashley Yu

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

Doug G. Goodin

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Geography, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America

Vicente J. Martinez Bruyn

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, San Lorenzo, Paraguay

Ryan C. McAllister

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States of America

Laura Rodriguez

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Fundación Moisés Bertoni, Asunción, Paraguay

Evan P. William

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Colleen B. Jonsson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cjonsson@uthsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.