About the Authors

Thomas M. Hart

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

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Alan P. Dupuis II

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

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Danielle M. Tufts

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

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Anna M. Blom

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Medical Protein Chemistry, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden

Simon R. Starkey

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Ryan O. M. Rego

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Sanjay Ram

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter Kraiczy

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

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Laura D. Kramer

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

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Maria A. Diuk-Wasser

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

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

SOK@downstate.edu (S-OK); Yi-Pin.Lin@health.ny.gov (Y-PL)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Institute for Genomic Health, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Yi-Pin Lin

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

SOK@downstate.edu (S-OK); Yi-Pin.Lin@health.ny.gov (Y-PL)

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.