About the Authors

Lauren W. Stranahan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College of Veterinary Medicine, College Station, TX, United States of America

Omar H. Khalaf

Contributed equally to this work with: Omar H. Khalaf, Daniel G. Garcia-Gonzalez

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College of Veterinary Medicine, College Station, TX, United States of America, Department of Veterinary Pathology & Poultry Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq

Daniel G. Garcia-Gonzalez

Contributed equally to this work with: Omar H. Khalaf, Daniel G. Garcia-Gonzalez

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College of Veterinary Medicine, College Station, TX, United States of America

Angela M. Arenas-Gamboa

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

aarenas@cvm.tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College of Veterinary Medicine, College Station, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.