About the Authors

Sabrina Lomax

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabrina Lomax, Charissa Harris

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Science, School of Life and Environmental Science, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia

Charissa Harris

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabrina Lomax, Charissa Harris

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Science, School of Life and Environmental Science, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia

Peter A. Windsor

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Faculty of Science, School of Life and Environmental Science, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia

Peter J. White

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

p.white@sydney.edu.au

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Faculty of Science, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia

Competing Interests

This work was funded by Australian Pork Limited as part of their annual competitive grants scheme. Bayer supplied the therapeutic agent Tri-Solfen for use in this trial. There are no other competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.