About the Authors

Meghan Wymore Brand

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

Alexandra L. Proctor

Roles Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

Jesse M. Hostetter

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Current address: Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

Naihui Zhou

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

Iddo Friedberg

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

Albert E. Jergens

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

Gregory J. Phillips

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

Michael J. Wannemuehler

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mjwannem@iastate.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.