About the Authors

Todd M. Bell

Contributed equally to this work with: Todd M. Bell, Paul Facemire

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

toddbell10@hotmail.com

Affiliation U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Paul Facemire

Contributed equally to this work with: Todd M. Bell, Paul Facemire

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

Affiliation U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jeremy J. Bearss

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jo Lynne Raymond

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jennifer Chapman

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

Current address: Labcorp Early Development Laboratories Inc., Chantilly, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Xiankun Zeng

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

Affiliation U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Joshua D. Shamblin

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

Affiliation U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Janice A. Williams

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

Affiliation U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Douglas W. Grosenbach

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

Affiliation SIGA Technologies, Inc., Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Dennis E. Hruby

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SIGA Technologies, Inc., Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Inger K. Damon

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

Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Arthur J. Goff

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

Affiliation U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Eric M. Mucker

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

Affiliation U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

DWG and DEH are employed by SIGA Technologies. SIGA Technologies holds commercial interest in tecovirimat and provided tecovirimat for the study referenced. Other authors have no conflict of interest.