About the Authors

Damon J. A. Toth

Contributed equally to this work with: Damon J. A. Toth, Adi V. Gundlapalli

Damon.Toth@hsc.utah.edu (DJAT); Adi.Gundlapalli@hsc.utah.edu (AVG)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Adi V. Gundlapalli

Contributed equally to this work with: Damon J. A. Toth, Adi V. Gundlapalli

Damon.Toth@hsc.utah.edu (DJAT); Adi.Gundlapalli@hsc.utah.edu (AVG)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Wiley A. Schell

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Kenneth Bulmahn

Affiliation Independent Risk Assessment Contractor, Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States of America

Thomas E. Walton

Affiliation Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health, United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Veterinary Services, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Christopher W. Woods

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Catherine Coghill

Affiliation Independent Risk Assessment Contractor, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Frank Gallegos

Affiliation Independent Risk Assessment Contractor, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Matthew H. Samore

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Frederick R. Adler

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DJAT AVG KB CC FG MHS. Performed the experiments: DJAT FRA. Analyzed the data: DJAT FRA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WAS TEW CWW. Wrote the paper: DJAT AVG WAS TEW MHS FRA. Performed literature review: DJAT AVG WAS TEW CWW.