About the Authors

Chandni Praveen

Contributed equally to this work with: Chandni Praveen, Sohini S. Bhatia, Robert C. Alaniz, Palmy R. Jesudhasan, Suresh D. Pillai

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Center for Electron Beam Research-an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Collaborating Centre for Electron Beam Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

Sohini S. Bhatia

Contributed equally to this work with: Chandni Praveen, Sohini S. Bhatia, Robert C. Alaniz, Palmy R. Jesudhasan, Suresh D. Pillai

Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Center for Electron Beam Research-an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Collaborating Centre for Electron Beam Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

Robert C. Alaniz

Contributed equally to this work with: Chandni Praveen, Sohini S. Bhatia, Robert C. Alaniz, Palmy R. Jesudhasan, Suresh D. Pillai

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization

s-pillai@tamu.edu (SDP); alaniz@medicine.tamhsc.edu (RCA)

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College Station, TX, United States of America

Robert E. Droleskey

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Food and Feed Safety Research Unit, Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, USDA-ARS, College Station, TX, United States of America

Noah D. Cohen

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

Palmy R. Jesudhasan

Contributed equally to this work with: Chandni Praveen, Sohini S. Bhatia, Robert C. Alaniz, Palmy R. Jesudhasan, Suresh D. Pillai

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Poultry Production and Product Safety, USDA-ARS, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States of America

Suresh D. Pillai

Contributed equally to this work with: Chandni Praveen, Sohini S. Bhatia, Robert C. Alaniz, Palmy R. Jesudhasan, Suresh D. Pillai

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

s-pillai@tamu.edu (SDP); alaniz@medicine.tamhsc.edu (RCA)

Affiliation National Center for Electron Beam Research-an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Collaborating Centre for Electron Beam Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.