About the Authors

Sushila Maan

sushilamaan105@gmail.com, sushila.maan@pirbright.ac.uk (SM); peter.mertens@pirbright.ac.uk

Current address: College of Veterinary Sciences, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana, India

Affiliation The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Surrey, United Kingdom

Narender Singh Maan

Current address: College of Veterinary Sciences, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana, India

Affiliation The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Surrey, United Kingdom

Manjunatha N. Belaganahalli

Current address: School of Veterinary Medicine, One Health Institute, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Affiliation The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Surrey, United Kingdom

Abraham C. Potgieter

Affiliations Deltamune Pty Ltd., Lyttelton, Centurion, South Africa, Department of Biochemistry, Centre for Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

Vinay Kumar

Affiliation College of Veterinary Sciences, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana, India

Kanisht Batra

Affiliation College of Veterinary Sciences, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana, India

Isabel M. Wright

Affiliation Deltamune Pty Ltd., Lyttelton, Centurion, South Africa

Peter D. Kirkland

Affiliation Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle NSW, Narellan, New South Wales, Australia

Peter P. C. Mertens

sushilamaan105@gmail.com, sushila.maan@pirbright.ac.uk (SM); peter.mertens@pirbright.ac.uk

Affiliations The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Surrey, United Kingdom, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

We have the following interests: Dr. Abraham. C. Potgieter and Dr. Isabel M. Wright are employed by a commercial company "Deltamune Pty Ltd, Lyttelton, Centurion, South Africa". There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SM NSM MNB PPCM. Data curation: SM NSM. Formal analysis: SM MNB NSM PDK PPCM. Funding acquisition: SM PPCM. Investigation: SM NSM MNB VK KB. Methodology: SM NSM. Project administration: SM PPCM. Resources: SM NSM ACP IMW PDK PPCM. Software: SM NSM. Supervision: SM PPCM. Validation: SM MNB NSM PDK VK KB. Visualization: SM NSM PPCM. Writing – original draft: SM NSM. Writing – review & editing: SM NSM MNB PDK PPCM.