About the Authors

Bradley W. M. Cook

Affiliations Applied Biosafety Research Program, National Microbiology Laboratory at the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health and National Microbiology Laboratory at the J. C. Wilt Infectious Diseases Research Centre, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Microbiology, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Charlene Ranadheera

Affiliation High Containment Respiratory Viruses Group, Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory at the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Aidan M. Nikiforuk

Affiliations Applied Biosafety Research Program, National Microbiology Laboratory at the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health and National Microbiology Laboratory at the J. C. Wilt Infectious Diseases Research Centre, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Microbiology, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Todd A. Cutts

Affiliation Applied Biosafety Research Program, National Microbiology Laboratory at the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health and National Microbiology Laboratory at the J. C. Wilt Infectious Diseases Research Centre, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Darwyn Kobasa

Affiliations High Containment Respiratory Viruses Group, Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory at the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Deborah A. Court

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Steven S. Theriault

steven.theriault@phac-aspc.gc.ca

Affiliations Applied Biosafety Research Program, National Microbiology Laboratory at the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health and National Microbiology Laboratory at the J. C. Wilt Infectious Diseases Research Centre, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Microbiology, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BWMC SST. Performed the experiments: BWMC. Analyzed the data: CR AMN DK DAC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TAC. Wrote the paper: BWMC. Manuscript editing: CR AMN TAC DK DAC SST.