About the Authors
- Henri A. Thomassen
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Affiliations Center for Tropical Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Comparative Zoology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Trevon Fuller
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Affiliation Center for Tropical Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Salvi Asefi-Najafabady
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Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Julia A. G. Shiplacoff
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Affiliation Center for Tropical Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Prime M. Mulembakani
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Affiliation Kinshasa School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Seth Blumberg
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Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Sara C. Johnston
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Affiliation United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fredrick, Maryland, United States of America
- Neville K. Kisalu
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Timothée L. Kinkela
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Affiliation Kinshasa School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Joseph N. Fair
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Affiliation Global Viral Forecasting, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Nathan D. Wolfe
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Affiliations Global Viral Forecasting, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Stanford University, Program in Human Biology, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Robert L. Shongo
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Affiliation Ministry of Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Matthew LeBreton
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Affiliation Global Viral Forecasting, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Hermann Meyer
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Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany
- Linda L. Wright
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Affiliation The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Jean-Jacques Muyembe
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Affiliation National Institute of Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Wolfgang Buermann
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Affiliations Center for Tropical Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Emile Okitolonda
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Affiliation Kinshasa School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Lisa E. Hensley
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Affiliation Medical Countermeasures Initiative, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
- James O. Lloyd-Smith
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Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Thomas B. Smith
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Affiliations Center for Tropical Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Anne W. Rimoin
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* E-mail: arimoin@ucla.edu
Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HAT TF SB JOLS TBS AWR. Performed the experiments: HAT JAGS TF. Analyzed the data: HAT SA-N. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA-N PMM SCJ NKK TLK JNF NDW RLS ML HM LLW JJM WB EO LEH AWR. Wrote the paper: HAT TF TBS AWR.