About the Authors

Maria D. Esteve-Gassent

Affiliations South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX-78249, United States of America, Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX-78249, United States of America

Trever C. Smith II

Affiliations South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX-78249, United States of America, Center of Excellence in Infection Genomics, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX-78249, United States of America

Christina M. Small

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX-78249, United States of America

Derek P. Thomas

Current address: Department of Biomedical Sciences, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI-49401, United States of America

Affiliations South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX-78249, United States of America, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX-77843, United States of America

J. Seshu

j.seshu@utsa.edu

Affiliations South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX-78249, United States of America, Center of Excellence in Infection Genomics, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX-78249, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDEG DPT JS. Performed the experiments: MDEG TCS CMS DPT. Analyzed the data: MDEG DPT JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MDEG TCS CMS DPT JS. Wrote the paper: MDEG DPT JS.