About the Authors

Lisa A. Waddell

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa A. Waddell, Judy D. Greig

Lisa.Waddell@phac-aspc.gc.ca

Affiliations National Microbiology Laboratory at Guelph, Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Judy D. Greig

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa A. Waddell, Judy D. Greig

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory at Guelph, Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW JG. Performed the experiments: LW JG. Analyzed the data: LW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LW JG. Wrote the paper: LW JG.