About the Authors

Yoshinori Nakazawa

ynakazawa@cdc.gov

Affiliations 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

R. Ryan Lash

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

Darin S. Carroll

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

Inger K. Damon

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

Kevin L. Karem

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

Mary G. Reynolds

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

Jorge E. Osorio

Affiliation Department of Pathological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Tonie E. Rocke

Affiliation USGS National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Jean M. Malekani

Affiliation University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Jean-Jacques Muyembe

Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Pierre Formenty

Affiliation Department of Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Response, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

A. Townsend Peterson

Affiliation Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YN DC ATP. Performed the experiments: YN RRL. Analyzed the data: YN DC ATP RRL MGR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MGR KLK JEO IKD TER JMM JJM PF. Wrote the paper: YN DC ATP.