About the Authors

Gang Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Gang Lu, Lingshuang Sun

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P. R. China, Key Laboratory of Comprehensive Prevention and Control for Severe Clinical Animal Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Lingshuang Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Gang Lu, Lingshuang Sun

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P. R. China, Key Laboratory of Comprehensive Prevention and Control for Severe Clinical Animal Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Tao Xu

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P. R. China, Key Laboratory of Comprehensive Prevention and Control for Severe Clinical Animal Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Dong He

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P. R. China, Key Laboratory of Comprehensive Prevention and Control for Severe Clinical Animal Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Zengchao Wang

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P. R. China, Key Laboratory of Comprehensive Prevention and Control for Severe Clinical Animal Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Shudan Ou

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P. R. China, Key Laboratory of Comprehensive Prevention and Control for Severe Clinical Animal Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Kun Jia

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P. R. China, Key Laboratory of Comprehensive Prevention and Control for Severe Clinical Animal Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Liguo Yuan

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P. R. China, Key Laboratory of Comprehensive Prevention and Control for Severe Clinical Animal Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Shoujun Li

shoujunli@scau.edu.cn

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P. R. China, Key Laboratory of Comprehensive Prevention and Control for Severe Clinical Animal Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL LS TX. Performed the experiments: GL SL. Analyzed the data: GL TX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZW DH SO KJ LY. Wrote the paper: GL LS SL.