About the Authors

Darin S. Carroll

DCarroll@cdc.gov

Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ginny L. Emerson

Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Yu Li

Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Scott Sammons

Affiliation Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Victoria Olson

Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Michael Frace

Affiliation Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Yoshinori Nakazawa

Affiliations Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Claus Peter Czerny

Affiliation Division of Microbiology and Animal Hygiene, Department of Animal Sciences, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany

Morten Tryland

Affiliations Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Section of Arctic Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Tromsø, Norway, Genøk, Center for Biosafety, The Science Park, Tromsø, Norway

Jolanta Kolodziejek

Affiliation Zoonoses and Emerging Infections Group, Clinical Virology, Department of Pathobiology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Norbert Nowotny

Affiliations Zoonoses and Emerging Infections Group, Clinical Virology, Department of Pathobiology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

Melissa Olsen-Rasmussen

Affiliation Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Marina Khristova

Affiliation Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Dhwani Govil

Affiliation Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Kevin Karem

Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Inger K. Damon

Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Hermann Meyer

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DC GE YL SS ID HM. Performed the experiments: DC GE YL SS VO MF YN CPC MT JK NN MO-R MK DG KK ID HM. Analyzed the data: DC GE YL SS ID HM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC GE YL SS VO MF YN CPC MT JK NN MO-R MK DG KK ID HM. Wrote the paper: DC GE YL SS ID KK HM.