About the Authors

Lia Danelishvili

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Yoshitaka Yamazaki

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan

Jeannie Selker

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Luiz E. Bermudez

Luiz.Bermudez@oregonstate.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, College of Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LD LB. Performed the experiments: LD YY JS LB. Analyzed the data: LD JS LB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY JS. Wrote the paper: LD LB.