About the Authors

Tamara Veiga-Parga

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Veiga-Parga, Amol Suryawanshi

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Amol Suryawanshi

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Veiga-Parga, Amol Suryawanshi

Affiliation Emory Vaccine Center and Yerkes Primate Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Barry T. Rouse

btr@utk.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TVP AS BTR. Performed the experiments: TVP AS. Analyzed the data: TVP AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BTR. Wrote the paper: TVP AS BTR.