About the Authors

Subash Chapagain

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

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

Prince Pal Singh

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

Khanh Le

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

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

David Safronetz

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Heidi Wood

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Uladzimir Karniychuk

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

u.karniychuk@usask.ca

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.