About the Authors

Kathryn Sulzner

Affiliation Wildlife Health Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Christine Kreuder Johnson

Affiliation Wildlife Health Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Robert K. Bonde

Affiliation Sirenia Project, United States Geological Survey, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Nicole Auil Gomez

Affiliation Sea to Shore Alliance, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

James Powell

Affiliation Sea to Shore Alliance, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

Klaus Nielsen

Affiliation Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Nepean, Ontario, Canada

M. Page Luttrell

Affiliation Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

A. D. M. E. Osterhaus

Affiliation Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

A. Alonso Aguirre

aaguirr3@gmu.edu

Affiliations Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, Front Royal, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RKB JP NAG AAA. Performed the experiments: RKB JP NAG AAA MPL KN AO. Analyzed the data: KS CKJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS CKJ RKB AAA. Wrote the paper: KS CKJ AAA RKB.