About the Authors

Richard Copin

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America

Xueying Wang

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States of America

Eddie Louie

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America

Vincent Escuyer

Affiliation Microbiology laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, United States of America

Mireia Coscolla

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Sebastien Gagneux

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Guy H. Palmer

Affiliation Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States of America

Joel D. Ernst

joel.ernst@med.nyu.edu

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America, Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RC JDE. Data curation: RC. Formal analysis: XW GHP. Funding acquisition: JDE. Investigation: RC. Methodology: RC JDE. Project administration: JDE. Resources: JDE EL VE. Software: XW GHP. Supervision: JDE. Visualization: RC JDE. Writing – original draft: RC XW GHP JDE. Writing – review & editing: RC XW GHP MC SG JDE.