About the Authors

Keding Cheng

Keding.Cheng@phac-aspc.gc.ca (KC); David.Knox@phac-aspc.gc.ca (JDK)

Affiliations National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Angela Sloan

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Kristen M. Avery

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Michael Coulthart

Affiliation Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Michael Carpenter

Affiliations National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

J. David Knox

Keding.Cheng@phac-aspc.gc.ca (KC); David.Knox@phac-aspc.gc.ca (JDK)

Affiliations National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KC AS JDK M. Coulthart. Performed the experiments: KC AS KMA. Analyzed the data: KC AS JDK M. Carpenter. Wrote the paper: KC AS JDK.