About the Authors
- Timothy Andrew Joyner
-
Affiliation Emerging Pathogens Institute and the Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Larissa Lukhnova
-
Affiliation Kazakh Science Center for Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases, Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Yerlan Pazilov
-
Affiliation Kazakh Science Center for Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases, Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Gulnara Temiralyeva
-
Affiliation Kazakh Science Center for Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases, Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Martin E. Hugh-Jones
-
Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, School of the Coast and Environment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
- Alim Aikimbayev
-
Current address: Republican Sanitary and Epidemiological Station, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Affiliation Kazakh Science Center for Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases, Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Jason K. Blackburn
-
* E-mail: jkblackburn@ufl.edu
Affiliation Emerging Pathogens Institute and the Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TAJ JKB. Performed the experiments: TAJ JKB. Analyzed the data: TAJ LL YP GT MHJ AA JKB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TAJ LL YP GT AA JKB. Wrote the paper: TAJ LL YP GT MHJ AA JKB.