About the Authors

Vanessa Gabriele-Rivet

Affiliation Groupe de Recherche en Épidémiologie des Zoonoses et Santé Publique, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

Julie Arsenault

Affiliations Groupe de Recherche en Épidémiologie des Zoonoses et Santé Publique, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada, Département de Pathologie et Microbiologie, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

Jacqueline Badcock

Affiliation Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, New Brunswick Department of Health, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Angela Cheng

Affiliation Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jim Edsall

Affiliation Jim Edsall Insect Identification Services, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Jim Goltz

Affiliation New Brunswick Department of Aquaculture, Agriculture & Food, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Joe Kennedy

Affiliation New Brunswick Natural Resources, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

L. Robbin Lindsay

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

Yann Pelcat

Affiliation Public Health Agency of Canada, Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

Nicholas H. Ogden

nicholas.ogden@phac-aspc.gc.ca

Affiliations Groupe de Recherche en Épidémiologie des Zoonoses et Santé Publique, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada, Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

JE is the owner of Jim Edsall Insect Identification Services. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NHO LRL YP JG JB. Performed the experiments: JE NHO JG LRL. Analyzed the data: VGR NHO JA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JG LRL JK AC. Wrote the paper: VGR NHO JA JB JG JK AC YP LRL JE.