About the Authors
- Koen M Verstappen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Koen M Verstappen, Pawel Tulinski
Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Pawel Tulinski
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Contributed equally to this work with: Koen M Verstappen, Pawel Tulinski
Current address: Department of Bionanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Birgitta Duim
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* E-mail: b.duim@uu.nl
Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Ad C Fluit
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Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Jennifer Carney
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Affiliation Novolytics Ltd., Warrington, United Kingdom
- Arie van Nes
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Affiliation Department of Farm Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Jaap A Wagenaar
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Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Central Veterinary Institute of Wageningen UR, Lelystad, the Netherlands
Competing Interests
JC was employed by the commercial company Novolytics Ltd, and played a role in design of the experiments and performed some of the experiments. All authors agreed with the manuscript and there was no conflict of interest. The contribution of Novolytics in the study does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KV PT BD AF JC AvN JW. Performed the experiments: KV PT JC. Analyzed the data: KV PT BD AF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC. Wrote the paper: KV PT BD AF JC AvN JW.