About the Authors

Haley L. DeMers

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Shihua He

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Sujata G. Pandit

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Emily E. Hannah

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Zirui Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Feihu Yan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Heather R. Green

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Denise F. Reyes

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Derrick Hau

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Megan E. McLarty

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Louis Altamura

Roles Investigation, Validation

Current address: National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, Operated by Battelle National Biodefense Institute for the US Department of Homeland Security, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Diagnostic Systems Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Cheryl Taylor-Howell

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Diagnostic Systems Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Marcellene A. Gates-Hollingsworth

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Xiangguo Qiu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

xiangguo.qiu@canada.ca (XQ); daucoin@med.unr.edu (DPA)

Affiliation Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

David P. AuCoin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

xiangguo.qiu@canada.ca (XQ); daucoin@med.unr.edu (DPA)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: InBios International Inc. (Seattle WA) was awarded the contract with a subcontract issued to the AuCoin laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.