About the Authors

Silvio Notari

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvio Notari, Francisco J. Moleres

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Francisco J. Moleres

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvio Notari, Francisco J. Moleres

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Stephen B. Hunter

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ermias D. Belay

Affiliation National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Lawrence B. Schonberger

Affiliation National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ignazio Cali

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Piero Parchi

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Universita' di Bologna, Italy

Wun-Ju Shieh

Affiliation National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Paul Brown

Affiliation CEA/DSV/iMETI/SEPIA, France

Sherif Zaki

Affiliation National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Wen-Quan Zou

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Pierluigi Gambetti

pxg13@case.edu

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SN FJM PG. Performed the experiments: SN FJM IC. Analyzed the data: SN FJM PB WQZ PG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SBH WJS SZ PG. Wrote the paper: SN FJM SBH EDB LBS IC PP WJS PB SZ WQZ PG.