About the Authors

Rebecca S. B. Fischer

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

Affiliations Section of Tropical Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

Jason M. Unrine

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

Chandan Vangala

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wayne T. Sanderson

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

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention, College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

Sreedhar Mandayam

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kristy O. Murray

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

kmurray@bcm.edu

Affiliations Section of Tropical Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America, William T. Shearer Center for Human Immunobiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: KM and WS serve on a Scientific Advisory Board for research into Mesoamerican Nephropathy in NSEL workers. This commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.