About the Authors

Brian M. Sullivan

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

bsully@scripps.edu

‡ These authors share first authorship of this work.

Affiliation Viral-Immunobiology Laboratory, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Saori Sakabe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors share first authorship of this work.

Affiliation Viral-Immunobiology Laboratory, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jessica N. Hartnett

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Nhi Ngo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Viral-Immunobiology Laboratory, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Augustine Goba

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Kenema, Sierra Leone, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Mambu Momoh

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Kenema, Sierra Leone, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Eastern Polytechnic Institute, Kenema, Sierra Leone

John Demby Sandi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Kenema, Sierra Leone, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Njala University, Moyamba, Sierra Leone

Lansana Kanneh

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliations Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Kenema, Sierra Leone, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Beatrice Cubitt

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Viral-Immunobiology Laboratory, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Selma D. Garcia

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Viral-Immunobiology Laboratory, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Brian C. Ware

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Viral-Immunobiology Laboratory, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Dylan Kotliar

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Refugio Robles-Sikisaka

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Viral-Immunobiology Laboratory, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Scripps Translational Research Institute, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Karthik Gangavarapu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Luis Branco

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Zalgen Labs, Germantown, Maryland, United States of America

Philomena Eromon

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Disease (ACEGID), Redeemers University, Ede, Nigeria

Ikponmwosa Odia

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria

Ephraim Ogbaini-Emovon

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria

Onikepe Folarin

Roles Investigation

Affiliations African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Disease (ACEGID), Redeemers University, Ede, Nigeria, Department of Biological Sciences, Redeemers University, Ede, Nigeria

Sylvanus Okogbenin

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria

Peter O. Okokhere

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria, Department of Medicine, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria

Christian Happi

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliations African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Disease (ACEGID), Redeemers University, Ede, Nigeria, Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria, Department of Biological Sciences, Redeemers University, Ede, Nigeria

Juan Carlos de la Torre

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Viral-Immunobiology Laboratory, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Pardis C. Sabeti

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

Affiliation Njala University, Moyamba, Sierra Leone

Kristian G. Andersen

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations Viral-Immunobiology Laboratory, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Scripps Translational Research Institute, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Robert F. Garry

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Donald S. Grant

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliations Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Kenema, Sierra Leone, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

John S. Schieffelin

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

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Michael B. A. Oldstone

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

Affiliation Viral-Immunobiology Laboratory, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: RFG and LMB are co-founders of Zalgen Labs, LLC. The Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium (vhfc.org) is a partnership of academic and industry scientists who are developing diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines for LF and other severe diseases. Tulane University and various industry partners have filed United States and foreign patent applications on behalf of the consortium for several of these technologies. If commercial products are developed, consortium members may receive royalties or profits.