About the Authors

Raies A. Mir

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Thomas A. Weppelmann

Affiliations Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Judith A. Johnson

Affiliations Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Douglas Archer

Affiliation Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

J. Glenn Morris Jr

Affiliation Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

KwangCheol Casey Jeong

kcjeong@ufl.edu

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RAM TAW JAJ DA JGM KCJ. Data curation: RAM TAW. Formal analysis: RAM TAW KCJ. Funding acquisition: KCJ. Investigation: RAM TAW JAJ DA JGM KCJ. Methodology: RAM TAW KCJ. Supervision: JAJ DA JGM KCJ. Validation: RAM TAW KCJ. Visualization: RAM TAW KCJ. Writing – original draft: RAM TAW JAJ DA JGM KCJ. Writing – review & editing: RAM TAW JAJ DA JGM KCJ.