About the Authors

Jennifer Ronholm

Affiliations Ottawa Laboratory Fallowfield, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Henk van Faassen

Affiliation Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Roger MacKenzie

Affiliations Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Zhiyi Zhang

Affiliation Institute for Microstructural Science, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Xudong Cao

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Min Lin

Min.Lin@inspection.gc.ca

Affiliations Ottawa Laboratory Fallowfield, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JR ML XC ZZ RM HV. Performed the experiments: JR HV. Analyzed the data: JR HV RM ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JR RM HV. Wrote the paper: JR ML RM HV.