About the Authors

Xin Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Gao, Xun Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Center for Food Safety and Security Systems, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Xun Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Gao, Xun Yang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Center for Food Safety and Security Systems, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Lance Noll

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

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America

Xiaorong Shi

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America

Jay Worley

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Center for Food Safety and Security Systems, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Marc Allard

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, United States of America

Eric Brown

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, United States of America

T. G. Nagaraja

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America

Jianghong Meng

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jmeng@umd.edu

Affiliation Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Center for Food Safety and Security Systems, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.