About the Authors

Arnon Gal

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

agal2@illinois.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Patrick C. Barko

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick C. Barko, Patrick J. Biggs, Paolo Pazzi

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

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Patrick J. Biggs

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick C. Barko, Patrick J. Biggs, Paolo Pazzi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Molecular Epidemiology & Public Health Laboratory, Infectious Disease Research Centre, School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, Bioinformatics and Statistics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Kristene R. Gedye

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology & Public Health Laboratory, Infectious Disease Research Centre, School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Anne C. Midwinter

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology & Public Health Laboratory, Infectious Disease Research Centre, School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

David A. Williams

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Richard K. Burchell

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

Affiliation North Coast Veterinary and Referral Centre, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Paolo Pazzi

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick C. Barko, Patrick J. Biggs, Paolo Pazzi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Companion Animal Clinical Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Competing Interests

Dr. Burchell’s current affiliation did not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. None of the authors have or had any conflict of interest with regards to conception, funding or execution of this study, analysis and interpretation of the results, or writing the manuscript of this study.