About the Authors

Anwar M. Hashem

Contributed equally to this work with: Anwar M. Hashem, Anathea S. Flaman

Affiliations Centre for Biologics Research, Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate, HPFB, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, and Emerging Pathogens Research Centre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Anathea S. Flaman

Contributed equally to this work with: Anwar M. Hashem, Anathea S. Flaman

Affiliation Centre for Biologics Research, Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate, HPFB, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Aaron Farnsworth

Affiliation Centre for Biologics Research, Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate, HPFB, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Earl G. Brown

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, and Emerging Pathogens Research Centre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Gary Van Domselaar

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Runtao He

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Xuguang Li

Sean_Li@hc-sc.gc.ca

Affiliations Centre for Biologics Research, Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate, HPFB, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, and Emerging Pathogens Research Centre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMH ASF AF EGB GVD RH XL. Performed the experiments: AMH ASF AF EGB GVD RH. Analyzed the data: AMH ASF AF EGB GVD RH XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RH XL. Wrote the paper: AMH ASF AF EGB RH XL.