About the Authors

Traci L. Testerman

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Traci.Testerman@uscmed.sc.edu (TLT); douglas.merrell@usuhs.edu (DSM)

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, United States of America

Cristina Semino-Mora

† Deceased.

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Jennifer A. Cann

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Medimmune, Rockville, MD, United States of America

Beidi Qiang

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, United States of America

Edsel A. Peña

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America

Hui Liu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Cara H. Olsen

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Haiying Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

Affiliation Wake Forest University Primate Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Susan E. Appt

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Wake Forest University Primate Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Jay R. Kaplan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Wake Forest University Primate Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Thomas C. Register

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Wake Forest University Primate Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

D. Scott Merrell

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Traci.Testerman@uscmed.sc.edu (TLT); douglas.merrell@usuhs.edu (DSM)

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Andre Dubois

† Deceased.

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.