About the Authors

Ulrich Wernery

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrich Wernery, Elaine Chan, Rekha Raghavan, Jade L. L. Teng

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

cvrl@cvrl.ae (UW); pcywoo@hku.hk (PCYW)

Affiliation Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Elaine Chan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrich Wernery, Elaine Chan, Rekha Raghavan, Jade L. L. Teng

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Rekha Raghavan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrich Wernery, Elaine Chan, Rekha Raghavan, Jade L. L. Teng

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Jade L. L. Teng

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrich Wernery, Elaine Chan, Rekha Raghavan, Jade L. L. Teng

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Carol Yu Centre for Infection, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Ginu Syriac

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Sing-Yung Siu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Marina Joseph

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Man-Lung Yeung

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Carol Yu Centre for Infection, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Lilong Jia

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Jian-Piao Cai

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Tsz-Ho Chiu

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Susanna K. P. Lau

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Carol Yu Centre for Infection, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Patrick C. Y. Woo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cvrl@cvrl.ae (UW); pcywoo@hku.hk (PCYW)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Carol Yu Centre for Infection, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.