About the Authors

Feba Ann John

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Valeria Criollo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Carissa Gaghan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Abigail Armwood

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

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Jennifer Holmes

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Anil J. Thachil

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bacteriology & Mycology Division, Rollins Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Rocio Crespo

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Raveendra R. Kulkarni

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

rrkulkar@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

US Provisional Patent Nos. 63/609,022, 63/608,491, 63/597,112 titled "Vaccine Composition Against Clostridial Dermatitis". This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.The sequences of ntATX-D1 and ntATX-D2 vaccine antigens reported in this work are also deposited in the GenBank (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/PP003322 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/PP003323).