About the Authors

Victor M. Cardenas

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

vmcardenas@uams.edu

‡ VMC and JLK are both first co-authors.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Joshua L. Kennedy

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

‡ VMC and JLK are both first co-authors.

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Arkansas Children’s Research Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Mark Williams

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

Affiliation Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Wendy N. Nembhard

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Namvar Zohoori

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

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Arkansas Department of Health, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Ruofei Du

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

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Jing Jin

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

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Danielle Boothe

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Lori A. Fischbach

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

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Outbreak Management Branch, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Catherine Kirkpatrick

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

Affiliation Arkansas Children’s Research Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Zeel Modi

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

Affiliation Arkansas Children’s Research Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Katherine Caid

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

Affiliation Arkansas Children’s Research Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Shana Owens

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

Affiliation Arkansas Children’s Research Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

J. Craig Forrest

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Laura James

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

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Karl W. Boehme

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Centre for Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Inflammatory Responses, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Ericka Olgaard

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Stephanie F. Gardner

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Benjamin C. Amick III

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.