About the Authors

Chungwon J. Chung

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

chungcw68@yahoo.com (CJC); virusmania@korea.kr (SHC)

Current address: Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Orient Point, New York, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, VMRD Inc., Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Sang-Ho Cha

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

chungcw68@yahoo.com (CJC); virusmania@korea.kr (SHC)

Affiliation Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, Gimcheon, Republic of Korea

Amanda L. Grimm

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation VMRD Inc., Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Dharani Ajithdoss

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Joanna Rzepka

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation VMRD Inc., Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Grace Chung

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation VMRD Inc., Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Jieun Yu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, Gimcheon, Republic of Korea

William C. Davis

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Chak-Sum Ho

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gift of life Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that four authors (CJC, ALG, JR, GC) were employed by VMRD Inc. while carrying out this research. CJC and SC are inventors for a patent related to an assay used in this study. This commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.