About the Authors
- Tsepo Lebiletsa Tsekoa
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Affiliation Biosciences Unit, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa
- Therese Lotter-Stark
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Affiliation Biosciences Unit, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa
- Sindisiwe Buthelezi
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Affiliation Biosciences Unit, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa
- Ereck Chakauya
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Affiliation Biosciences Unit, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa
- Stoyan H. Stoychev
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Affiliation Biosciences Unit, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa
- Claude Sabeta
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Affiliation ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa
- Wonderful Shumba
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Affiliation ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa
- Baby Phahladira
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Affiliation ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa
- Steve Hume
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Affiliation Kentucky Bioprocessing, Owensboro, Kentucky, United States
- Josh Morton
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Affiliation Kentucky Bioprocessing, Owensboro, Kentucky, United States
- Charles E. Rupprecht
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Affiliation The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Herta Steinkellner
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Affiliation Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- Michael Pauly
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Affiliation Mapp Biopharmaceutical, San Diego, California, United States
- Larry Zeitlin
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Affiliation Mapp Biopharmaceutical, San Diego, California, United States
- Kevin Whaley
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Affiliation Mapp Biopharmaceutical, San Diego, California, United States
- Rachel Chikwamba
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* E-mail: rchikwamba@csir.co.za
Affiliation Biosciences Unit, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa
Competing Interests
LZ and KW are owners of Mapp Biopharmaceutical, a commercial company. MP is employed by Mapp Biopharmaceutical, while JM and SH are employed by Kentucky Bioprocessing, a commercial company. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RC LZ KW CS HS CR. Performed the experiments: TT TLS MP HS SS SB WS BP EC SH JM. Analyzed the data: EC TT HS SS CS MP SH JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS HS CR. Wrote the paper: TT TLS SB EC SS CS WS BP SH JM CR HS MP LZ KW RC.