About the Authors

Angelia A. Eick-Cost

Angie.Eick@us.army.mil (AE); toti.sanchez@us.army.mil (JS)

Affiliations Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC), Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., (HJF), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Katie J. Tastad

Affiliations US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM), 711th Human Performance Wing, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., (HJF), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Alicia C. Guerrero

Affiliation US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM), 711th Human Performance Wing, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, United States of America

Matthew C. Johns

Affiliation Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC), Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Seung-eun Lee

Affiliation Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC), Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Victor H. MacIntosh

Affiliation US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM), 711th Human Performance Wing, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, United States of America

Ronald L. Burke

Affiliation Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC), Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

David L. Blazes

Affiliation Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC), Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Kevin L. Russell

Affiliation Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC), Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Jose L. Sanchez

Angie.Eick@us.army.mil (AE); toti.sanchez@us.army.mil (JS)

Affiliations Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC), Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., (HJF), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AE KT AG VM MJ JS RB DB KR. Performed the experiments: AE KT AG MJ SL VM JS. Analyzed the data: AE KT AG VM SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AE KT AG SL VM JS. Wrote the paper: AE KT AG MJ SL VM RB DB KR JS.