About the Authors

Louise Baker

Contributed equally to this work with: Louise Baker, Andre M. L. Chitas

Affiliation Centre for Animal Biotechnology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Andre M. L. Chitas

Contributed equally to this work with: Louise Baker, Andre M. L. Chitas

Affiliation Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Carol A. Hartley

Affiliation Centre for Equine Infectious Disease, Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Mauricio J. C. Coppo

Affiliation Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Paola K. Vaz

Affiliation Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Andrew Stent

Affiliation Centre for Animal Biotechnology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

James R. Gilkerson

Affiliation Centre for Equine Infectious Disease, Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Joanne M. Devlin

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Alison L. Every

aevery@unimelb.edu.au

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Centre for Animal Biotechnology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LB CAH JRG JMD ALE. Performed the experiments: LB AMLC PKV ALE. Analyzed the data: LB AMLC CAH JRG JMD ALE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJCC PKV AS. Wrote the paper: LB AMLC CAH JMD ALE.