About the Authors
- Heidie M. Hornstra
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Contributed equally to this work with: Heidie M. Hornstra, Rachael A. Priestley
Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Rachael A. Priestley
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Contributed equally to this work with: Heidie M. Hornstra, Rachael A. Priestley
Affiliation Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Shalamar M. Georgia
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Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Sergey Kachur
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Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Dawn N. Birdsell
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Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Remy Hilsabeck
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Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Lauren T. Gates
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Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- James E. Samuel
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Affiliation Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America
- Robert A. Heinzen
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Affiliation Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America
- Gilbert J. Kersh
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Affiliation Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Paul Keim
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Affiliations Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Pathogen Genomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
- Robert F. Massung
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* E-mail: rfm2@cdc.gov (RFM); talima.pearson@nau.edu (TP)
Affiliation Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Talima Pearson
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* E-mail: rfm2@cdc.gov (RFM); talima.pearson@nau.edu (TP)
Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Bioinformatic work and assay design: HMH SMG SK DNB RH LTG TP. Collected genotype data: HMH RAP SMG SK RH LTG. Provided materials and data, interpreted results: HMH RAP GJK JES RAH PK RFM TP. Wrote the manuscript: HMH RFM TP.