About the Authors

Eric D. Cassmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric D. Cassmann, Najiba Mammadova

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

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

Najiba Mammadova

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric D. Cassmann, Najiba Mammadova

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

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

Justin J. Greenlee

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

justin.greenlee@usda.gov

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.