About the Authors

Chelsea G. Himsworth

Chelsea.Himsworth@gov.bc.ca

Affiliations School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Animal Health Centre, British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

Ruth R. Miller

Affiliation Animal Health Centre, British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

Vincent Montoya

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Linda Hoang

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Marc G. Romney

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ghada N. Al-Rawahi

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Thomas Kerr

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Claire M. Jardine

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

David M. Patrick

Affiliation School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Patrick Tang

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

J. Scott Weese

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CGH RRM VM PT SW TK CMJ DMP. Performed the experiments: CGH RRM VM PT SW. Analyzed the data: CGH RRM VM PT SW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LH MGR GNA. Wrote the paper: CGH RRM VM LH MGR GNA TK CMJ DMP PT SW.