About the Authors

Joseph T. Hicks

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Kimberly Edwards

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Xueting Qiu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Do-Kyun Kim

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America

James E. Hixson

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Scott Krauss

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Richard J. Webby

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Robert G. Webster

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Justin Bahl

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

justin.bahl@uga.edu

Affiliation Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.