About the Authors

Stephanie N. Shishido

Affiliation Departments of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Thu A. Nguyen

tnguyen@vet.k-state.edu

Affiliation Departments of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TAN SNS. Performed the experiments: SNS. Analyzed the data: SNS TAN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TAN. Wrote the paper: SNS TAN.