About the Authors

Joana N. Rocha

Affiliation Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843–4475, United States of America

Noah D. Cohen

NCohen@cvm.tamu.edu (NDC); S-Pillai@tamu.edu (SDP)

Affiliation Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843–4475, United States of America

Angela I. Bordin

Affiliation Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843–4475, United States of America

Courtney N. Brake

Affiliation Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843–4475, United States of America

Steeve Giguère

Affiliation Department of Large Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30602–7385, United States of America

Michelle C. Coleman

Affiliation Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843–4475, United States of America

Robert C. Alaniz

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, 77843, United States of America

Sara D. Lawhon

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843–4467, United States of America

Waithaka Mwangi

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843–4467, United States of America

Suresh D. Pillai

NCohen@cvm.tamu.edu (NDC); S-Pillai@tamu.edu (SDP)

Affiliation National Center for Electron Beam Research–IAEA Collaborative Centre for Electron Beam Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JNR NDC AIB SG RCA WM SDP. Performed the experiments: JNR NDC AIB CNB MCC. Analyzed the data: JNR AIB NDC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG SDL WM SDP. Wrote the paper: JNR NDC AIB SG SDL RCA SDP.