About the Authors

Alexa J. Bracht

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexa J. Bracht, Emily S. O’Hearn

Alexa.J.Bracht@aphis.usda.gov

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Orient, NY, United States of America

Emily S. O’Hearn

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexa J. Bracht, Emily S. O’Hearn

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Orient, NY, United States of America

Andrew W. Fabian

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Orient, NY, United States of America

Roger W. Barrette

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Orient, NY, United States of America

Abu Sayed

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Agriculture Select Agent Services, National Import Export Services, Riverdale, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS. Performed the experiments: AJB ESO AWF RWB AS. Analyzed the data: AJB ESO AWF RWB AS. Wrote the paper: AS. Sample inventory and processing and cell culture: AWF