About the Authors

Ludmila Perelygina

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

Affiliation Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Min-hsin Chen

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Suganthi Suppiah

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Adebola Adebayo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Emily Abernathy

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Morna Dorsey

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lionel Bercovitch

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Hasbro Children's Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Kenneth Paris

Roles Resources

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children's Hospital New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Kevin P. White

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Alfons Krol

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Julie Dhossche

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Ivan Y. Torshin

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacoinformatics, Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of Russian Academy of Sciences, Dorodnicyn Computing Center, Moscow, Russian Federation

Natalie Saini

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, US National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Leszek J. Klimczak

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Integrative Bioinformatics Support Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, US National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Dmitry A. Gordenin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, US National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Andrey Zharkikh

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Myriad Genetics, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Stanley Plotkin

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kathleen E. Sullivan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Immunology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joseph Icenogle

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jci1@cdc.gov

Affiliation Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Andrey Zharkikh is an employee of Myriad Genetics. This company works in cancer genetics and diagnostics without any relation to pathogen studies and treatments. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS Pathogens policies on sharing data and materials.