About the Authors

Meetu Seth

Contributed equally to this work with: Meetu Seth, Elise A. Lamont

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Elise A. Lamont

Contributed equally to this work with: Meetu Seth, Elise A. Lamont

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Harish K. Janagama

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Andrea Widdel

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Lucy Vulchanova

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Judith R. Stabel

Affiliation National Animal Disease Center, United States Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

W. Ray Waters

Affiliation National Animal Disease Center, United States Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Mitchell V. Palmer

Affiliation National Animal Disease Center, United States Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Srinand Sreevatsan

sreev001@umn.edu

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS EAL AW LV WRW SS. Performed the experiments: MS EAL HKJ AW. Analyzed the data: MS EAL HKJ LV SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LV JRS WRW MVP SS. Wrote the paper: MS EAL HKJ LV JRS WRW MVP SS.