About the Authors

Haroon Mohammad

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

Affiliation Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

Nader S. Abutaleb

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Alexandra M. Dieterly

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

Affiliation Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

L. Tiffany Lyle

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America, Center for Comparative Translational Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

Mohamed N. Seleem

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

seleem@vt.edu

Affiliations Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.