About the Authors

Ram K. Raghavan

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

RaghavanRK@missouri.edu

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Public Health, School of Health Professions, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Zoe L. Koestel

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Gunavanthi Boorgula

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Ali Hroobi

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

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Science, Al-Baha University, Al-Baha, Saudi Arabia

Roman Ganta

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

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

John Harrington Jr.

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Independent Researcher, South Bend, WA, United States of America

Doug Goodin

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Independent Researcher, South Bend, WA, United States of America

Roger W. Stich

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Gary Anderson

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Independent Researcher, South Bend, WA, United States of America, Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.