About the Authors

Klaudyna A. Borewicz

Contributed equally to this work with: Klaudyna A. Borewicz, Hyeun Bum Kim

Current address: Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, 1971 Commonwealth Ave., St. Paul, MN, 55108, United States of America

Hyeun Bum Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Klaudyna A. Borewicz, Hyeun Bum Kim

Current address: Department of Animal Resources Science, Dankook University, Cheonan 330–714, South Korea

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, 1971 Commonwealth Ave., St. Paul, MN, 55108, United States of America

Randall S. Singer

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, 1971 Commonwealth Ave., St. Paul, MN, 55108, United States of America

Connie J. Gebhart

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, 1971 Commonwealth Ave., St. Paul, MN, 55108, United States of America

Srinand Sreevatsan

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, 1971 Commonwealth Ave., St. Paul, MN, 55108, United States of America

Timothy Johnson

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, 1971 Commonwealth Ave., St. Paul, MN, 55108, United States of America

Richard E. Isaacson

isaac015@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, 1971 Commonwealth Ave., St. Paul, MN, 55108, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: REI RSS CJG TJ SS. Performed the experiments: REI KAB HBK RSS CJG. Analyzed the data: REI KAB HBK RSS SS TJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: REI CJG. Wrote the paper: REI KAB HBK RSS CJG SS TJ.