About the Authors
- Haley L. DeMers
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: 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
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: 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.