About the Authors

Sutas Suttiprapa

Contributed equally to this work with: Sutas Suttiprapa, Gabriel Rinaldi, Isheng J. Tsai

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Phyathai, Rachthewee, Bangkok, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Muang Khon Kaen, Thailand

Gabriel Rinaldi

Contributed equally to this work with: Sutas Suttiprapa, Gabriel Rinaldi, Isheng J. Tsai

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Isheng J. Tsai

Contributed equally to this work with: Sutas Suttiprapa, Gabriel Rinaldi, Isheng J. Tsai

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Victoria H. Mann

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Larisa Dubrovsky

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Hong-bin Yan

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America, Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xujiaping 1, Lanzhou, Gansu, The People's Republic of China

Nancy Holroyd

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Thomas Huckvale

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Caroline Durrant

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Anna V. Protasio

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Tatiana Pushkarsky

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Sergey Iordanskiy

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America, National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Matthew Berriman

mb4@sanger.ac.uk (MB); mbukrins@gwu.edu (MIB); pbrindley@gwu.edu (PJB)

‡ MB, MIB, and PJB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Michael I. Bukrinsky

mb4@sanger.ac.uk (MB); mbukrins@gwu.edu (MIB); pbrindley@gwu.edu (PJB)

‡ MB, MIB, and PJB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Paul J. Brindley

mb4@sanger.ac.uk (MB); mbukrins@gwu.edu (MIB); pbrindley@gwu.edu (PJB)

‡ MB, MIB, and PJB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GR SS SI VHM MIB PJB MB. Data curation: IJT NH GR SI MB. Formal analysis: GR CD NH IJT MB SI MIB PJB. Funding acquisition: MB GR SI SS MIB PJB. Investigation: SS SI HbY GR LD VHM CD MB. Methodology: MIB SI GR IJT CD VHM PJB. Project administration: MB GR SI MIB PJB. Resources: SI GR LD TP VHM MIB MB PJB. Software: IJT NH TH AVP CD GR MB. Supervision: MB MIB GR PJB. Validation: SI GR SS CD NH IJT MB. Visualization: GR SI SS MB IJT PJB. Writing – original draft: SS GR SI NH MIB MB PJB. Writing – review & editing: GR SI SS NH CD IJT MB MIB PJB.