About the Authors

Clement W. Gnanadurai

Contributed equally to this work with: Clement W. Gnanadurai, Yang Yang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Yang Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Clement W. Gnanadurai, Yang Yang

Affiliations Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, State-key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Ying Huang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Zhenguang Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Christina M. Leyson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Tanya L. Cooper

Affiliation Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Simon R. Platt

Affiliation Small Medicine & Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Stephen B. Harvey

Affiliation Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Douglas C. Hooper

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology and Neurological Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Milosz Faber

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology and Neurological Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zhen F. Fu

zhenfu@uga.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, State-key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CWG YY YH ZFF. Performed the experiments: CWG YY YH ZL CML TLC. Analyzed the data: CWG YY YH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TLC DCH MF. Wrote the paper: CWG YY YH SRP SBH DCH ZFF.