About the Authors
- Berlin Londono-Renteria
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America
- Andrea Troupin
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America
- Michael J Conway
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Affiliation Foundational Sciences, Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States of America
- Diana Vesely
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Affiliation L2 Diagnostics, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Michael Ledizet
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Affiliation L2 Diagnostics, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Christopher M. Roundy
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Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- Erin Cloherty
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Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- Samuel Jameson
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Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- Dana Vanlandingham
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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
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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
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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
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* E-mail: 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.