About the Authors

Yang Zhou

Affiliation National Animal Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology and Zoonosis of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine and State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China

Syed Zahid Ali Shah

Affiliation National Animal Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology and Zoonosis of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine and State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China

Lifeng Yang

Affiliation National Animal Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology and Zoonosis of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine and State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China

Zhongqiu Zhang

Affiliation Veterinary Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing 100125, China

Xiangmei Zhou

zhouxm@cau.edu.cn (XZ); zhaodm@cau.edu.cn (DZ)

Affiliation National Animal Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology and Zoonosis of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine and State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China

Deming Zhao

zhouxm@cau.edu.cn (XZ); zhaodm@cau.edu.cn (DZ)

Affiliation National Animal Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology and Zoonosis of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine and State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ SZAS LY ZZ XZ DZ. Performed the experiments: YZ SZAS. Analyzed the data: YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ SZAS LY ZZ XZ DZ. Wrote the paper: YZ SZAS XZ.