About the Authors

Md Niaz Rahim

Contributed equally to this work with: Md Niaz Rahim, Edmund G. Wee, Shihua He

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Edmund G. Wee

Contributed equally to this work with: Md Niaz Rahim, Edmund G. Wee, Shihua He

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization

Affiliation The Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Shihua He

Contributed equally to this work with: Md Niaz Rahim, Edmund G. Wee, Shihua He

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Jonathan Audet

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Kevin Tierney

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Nathifa Moyo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation The Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Zara Hannoun

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation The Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Alison Crook

Roles Project administration

Affiliation The Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Andrea Baines

Roles Project administration

Affiliation The Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Bette Korber

Roles Conceptualization, Software

Affiliations Los Alamo National Laboratory, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, The New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Xiangguo Qiu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

‡ XQ and TH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Tomáš Hanke

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tomas.hanke@ndm.ox.ac.uk

‡ XQ and TH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations The Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, International Research Center for Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Competing Interests

NO authors have competing interests.