About the Authors

Teklu Wegayehu

tekluweg2007@yahoo.com (TW); zhanglx8999@gmail.com (LZ)

Affiliations Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Collage of Natural Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

Robiul Karim

Affiliations Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, College of Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Manyazewal Anberber

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Debre Zeit, Ethiopia

Haileeyesus Adamu

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Berhanu Erko

Affiliation Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Longxian Zhang

tekluweg2007@yahoo.com (TW); zhanglx8999@gmail.com (LZ)

Affiliation College of Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Getachew Tilahun

Affiliation Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW HA BE GT. Performed the experiments: TW MRK MA. Analyzed the data: TW MA LZ GT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TW MRK HA BE LZ GT. Wrote the paper: TW MRK BE LZ GT. Sample collection: TW MA.