About the Authors

Aurélien Vigneron

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

aurelien.vigneron@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Emre Aksoy

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

Current address: Graduate Program in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Brian L. Weiss

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Xiaoli Bing

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Xin Zhao

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Current address: CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Erick O. Awuoche

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Department of Agriculture, School of Agriculture and Food Science, Meru University of Science and Technology, Meru, Kenya

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Michelle B. O'Neill

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Yineng Wu

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Geoffrey M. Attardo

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Current address: Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Serap Aksoy

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: - Serap Aksoy has a non-financial competing interest as she serves as editor-in-chief of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases