About the Authors

Rohana P. Dassanayake

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rohana.dassanayake@ars.usda.gov

Affiliation Ruminant Diseases and Immunology Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, United Sates Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Shollie M. Falkenberg

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ruminant Diseases and Immunology Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, United Sates Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Karen B. Register

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ruminant Diseases and Immunology Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, United Sates Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Daniel Samorodnitsky

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Virus and Prion Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Eric M. Nicholson

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Virus and Prion Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Timothy A. Reinhardt

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ruminant Diseases and Immunology Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, United Sates Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.