About the Authors

Jessica Galloway-Peña

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica Galloway-Peña, Jung Hyeob Roh

Affiliations Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for the Study of Emerging and Reemerging Pathogens, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jung Hyeob Roh

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica Galloway-Peña, Jung Hyeob Roh

Affiliations Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for the Study of Emerging and Reemerging Pathogens, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mauricio Latorre

Affiliation Laboratorio de Bioinformática y Expresión Génica, INTA, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Xiang Qin

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Barbara E. Murray

BEM.asst@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliations Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for the Study of Emerging and Reemerging Pathogens, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JGP JHR BEM. Performed the experiments: JGP JHR ML XQ. Analyzed the data: JGP JHR ML XQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BEM. Wrote the paper: JGP BEM.