About the Authors

Charles K. Nfon

charles.nfon@inspection.gc.ca (CKN); Hana.Weingartl@inspection.gc.ca (HMW)

Affiliation National Center for Foreign Animal Disease, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Peter Marszal

Affiliation National Center for Foreign Animal Disease, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Shunzhen Zhang

Affiliation National Center for Foreign Animal Disease, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Hana M. Weingartl

charles.nfon@inspection.gc.ca (CKN); Hana.Weingartl@inspection.gc.ca (HMW)

Affiliations National Center for Foreign Animal Disease, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CKN PM HMW. Performed the experiments: CKN PM SZ HMW. Analyzed the data: CKN SZ HMW. Wrote the paper: CKN HMW.