About the Authors

Rita M. Traxler

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

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Tsira Napetvaridze

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Food Agency (NFA) of Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia (MEPA), Tbilisi, Georgia

Zviad Asanishvili

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Food Agency (NFA) of Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia (MEPA), Tbilisi, Georgia

Marika Geleishvili

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CDC, Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ketevan Rukhadze

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rural Development and Vocational Education (DRDVE) of Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA), Tbilisi, Georgia

Giorgi Maghlakelidze

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CDC, Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Mariam Broladze

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Center for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Tbilisi, Georgia

Maka Kokhreidze

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture (LMA), Tbilisi, Georgia

Edmond F. Maes

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CDC, Global Immunization Division, Center for Global Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Debby Reynolds

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Mo Salman

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Sean V. Shadomy

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CDC One Health Office, NCEZID, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Sangeeta Rao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Sangeeta.Rao@colostate.edu

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.