About the Authors

Jielu Ling

Affiliation Animal Infectious Disease Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Haizhu Pan

Affiliation Animal Infectious Disease Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Qingqing Gao

Affiliation Animal Infectious Disease Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Liping Xiong

Affiliation Animal Infectious Disease Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Yefei Zhou

Affiliation Animal Infectious Disease Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Debao Zhang

Affiliation Animal Infectious Disease Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Song Gao

gsong@yzu.edu.cn

Affiliation Animal Infectious Disease Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Xiufan Liu

Affiliation Animal Infectious Disease Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG XL. Performed the experiments: HP LX QG DZ YZ. Analyzed the data: JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG. Wrote the paper: JL.