About the Authors

Hossam Abdelhamed

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

abdelhamed@cvm.msstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, United States of America

Reshma Ramachandran

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, United States of America, Department of Poultry Science, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, United States of America

Lakshmi Narayanan

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, United States of America

Shamima Islam

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, United States of America

Ozdemir Ozan

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, United States of America

Nancy Freitag

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

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Mark L. Lawrence

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.