About the Authors

Berlin Londono-Renteria

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

Andrea Troupin

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

Michael J Conway

Affiliation Foundational Sciences, Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States of America

Diana Vesely

Affiliation L2 Diagnostics, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Michael Ledizet

Affiliation L2 Diagnostics, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Christopher M. Roundy

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Erin Cloherty

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Samuel Jameson

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Dana Vanlandingham

Affiliations Biosecurity Research Institute, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America, Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Stephen Higgs

Affiliations Biosecurity Research Institute, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America, Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Erol Fikrig

Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Tonya M. Colpitts

tonya.colpitts@uscmed.sc.edu

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

Competing Interests

DVe and ML are employed by L2 Diagnostics (CT). The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS Pathogens policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BLR MJC TMC. Performed the experiments: BLR AT MJC DVe ML CMR EC SJ EF TMC. Analyzed the data: BLR AT DVe TMC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DVa SH. Wrote the paper: BLR AT TMC.