About the Authors

Lyn M. Wise

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lyn.wise@otago.ac.nz

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Christa J. Bodaan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Camden Equine Centre, University of Sydney, Brownlow Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Affiliation School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Gabriella S. Stuart

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Nicola C. Real

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Zabeen Lateef

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Andrew A. Mercer

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Christopher B. Riley

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Christine L. Theoret

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, Comparative Tissue Healing Laboratory, Département de Biomedecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have no conflicts to declare except LW and AM, who are co-inventors on a patent (US 9314505; Combination Treatments and Compositions for Wound Healing) for the use of orf virus VEGF-E and IL-10 in treatment of skin wounds. If a product is developed, or the patent is licensed, income may be generated for the inventors. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.