About the Authors

Elise A. Lamont

Affiliation Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

John P. Bannantine

Affiliation Agricultural Research Service, National Animal Disease Center, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Aníbal Armién

Affiliation Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Don Sanjiv Ariyakumar

Affiliation Veterinary Diagnostic Lab, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Srinand Sreevatsan

sreev001@umn.edu

Affiliations Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EAL JPB SS. Performed the experiments: EAL JPB DSA AA. Analyzed the data: EAL AA SS JPB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EAL JPB SS. Wrote the paper: EAL SS.