Agricultural and geographic factors shaped the North American 2015 highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N2 outbreak

• Joseph T. Hicks ,

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

  * E-mail: joseph.hicks@uga.edu (JTH); justin.bahl@uga.edu (JB)

  Affiliation Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Ecology and Biostatistics, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4815-8099

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• Dong-Hun Lee,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science, the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Venkata R. Duvvuri,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Ecology and Biostatistics, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7356-338X

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• Mia Kim Torchetti,

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

  Affiliation U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• David E. Swayne,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Exotic and Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Research Unit, U.S. National Poultry Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7472-1992

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• Justin Bahl

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

  * E-mail: joseph.hicks@uga.edu (JTH); justin.bahl@uga.edu (JB)

  Affiliations Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Ecology and Biostatistics, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7572-4300

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