About the Authors

Michele L. Pearson

Affiliation Division of TB Elimination, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Joseph V. Selby

Affiliation Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, United States of America

Kenneth A. Katz

Affiliation HIV, STD, and Hepatitis Branch, Health and Human Services Agency, County of San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Virginia Cantrell

Affiliation Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, United States of America

Christopher R. Braden

Affiliation Division of Food, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Monica E. Parise

Affiliation Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Christopher D. Paddock

Affiliation Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Michael R. Lewin-Smith

Affiliation Environmental Pathology, Joint Pathology Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Victor F. Kalasinsky

Affiliation Office of Research & Development, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Felicia C. Goldstein

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Allen W. Hightower

Affiliation Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Arthur Papier

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Brian Lewis

Affiliation Division of Health Studies, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Sarita Motipara

Affiliation Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, United States of America

Mark L. Eberhard

mle1@cdc.gov

Affiliation Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

for the Unexplained Dermopathy Study Team

Additional membership of the Unexplained Dermopathy Study Team is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

One or more of the authors are employed by a commercial, not-for-profit entity (Kaiser Permanente). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M. Pearson JS CB KK MLE CP ML-S VK CD M. Parise BL. Performed the experiments: KK VC M. Pearson CP SZ ML-S VK LB PA GL MES W-JS PW JH GL SM EL IM FM. Analyzed the data: AB BF AWH AP FCG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CP SZ ML-S VK LB GL MES W-JS PW IM JH SM. Wrote the paper: M. Pearson JS CP ML-S.