About the Authors
- Vanessa Gabriele-Rivet
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Affiliation Groupe de Recherche en Épidémiologie des Zoonoses et Santé Publique, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
- Julie Arsenault
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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
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Affiliation Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, New Brunswick Department of Health, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
- Angela Cheng
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Affiliation Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Jim Edsall
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Affiliation Jim Edsall Insect Identification Services, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Jim Goltz
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Affiliation New Brunswick Department of Aquaculture, Agriculture & Food, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
- Joe Kennedy
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Affiliation New Brunswick Natural Resources, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
- L. Robbin Lindsay
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Affiliation Public Health Agency of Canada, National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Yann Pelcat
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Affiliation Public Health Agency of Canada, Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
- Nicholas H. Ogden
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* E-mail: 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.