About the Authors

Juan C. Garcia–R

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

j.c.garciaramirez@massey.ac.nz

Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology and Public Health Laboratory, Hopkirk Research Institute, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Nigel French

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

Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology and Public Health Laboratory, Hopkirk Research Institute, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Anthony Pita

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology and Public Health Laboratory, Hopkirk Research Institute, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Niluka Velathanthiri

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology and Public Health Laboratory, Hopkirk Research Institute, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Rima Shrestha

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Veterinary, Animal & Biomedical Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

David Hayman

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology and Public Health Laboratory, Hopkirk Research Institute, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.