About the Authors

Chanida Fongsaran

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Current address: Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Vector-Borne Disease Laboratories, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Krit Jirakanwisal

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Vector-Borne Disease Laboratories, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Natthida Tongluan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliations Vector-Borne Disease Laboratories, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Allison Latour

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Vector-Borne Disease Laboratories, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Sean Healy

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Vector-Borne Disease Laboratories, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Rebecca C. Christofferson

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Vector-Borne Disease Laboratories, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Kevin R. Macaluso

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kmacaluso@southalabama.edu

Affiliations Vector-Borne Disease Laboratories, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.