About the Authors

Bradley J. Main

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jay Nicholson

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Olivia C. Winokur

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Cody Steiner

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Kasen K. Riemersma

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jackson Stuart

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Ryan Takeshita

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration

Current address: The National Marine Mammal Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Abt Associates Inc., Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Michelle Krasnec

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Abt Associates Inc., Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Christopher M. Barker

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Lark L. Coffey

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

lcoffey@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Michelle Krasnec and Ryan Takeshita are/were employed by Abt Associates. Abt Associates provided support in the form of salaries for authors [MK and RT], but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section.