About the Authors

Brian Lassen

Contributed equally to this work with: Brian Lassen, Marilin Janson

brian.lassen@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Basic Veterinary Sciences and Population Medicine, Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

Marilin Janson

Contributed equally to this work with: Brian Lassen, Marilin Janson

Affiliation Department of Basic Veterinary Sciences and Population Medicine, Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia

Arvo Viltrop

Affiliation Department of Basic Veterinary Sciences and Population Medicine, Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia

Kädi Neare

Affiliation Department of Basic Veterinary Sciences and Population Medicine, Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia

Pirje Hütt

Affiliation Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, Chair of Medical Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Irina Golovljova

Affiliation Department of Virology, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia

Lea Tummeleht

Affiliation Department of Basic Veterinary Sciences and Population Medicine, Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia

Pikka Jokelainen

Affiliations Department of Basic Veterinary Sciences and Population Medicine, Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PJ BL AV. Data curation: MJ BL. Formal analysis: BL PJ AV. Funding acquisition: AV BL PJ. Investigation: MJ KN BL LT. Methodology: BL AV PJ PH MJ KN. Project administration: AV BL IG. Resources: IG. Supervision: BL AV LT. Validation: BL MJ. Visualization: BL. Writing – original draft: BL PJ MJ. Writing – review & editing: BL PJ MJ AV PH KN IG LT.