About the Authors
- Ami A. Patel
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Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
- Hanni Lee-Lewis
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Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
- Jennifer Hughes-Hanks
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer Hughes-Hanks, Craig A. Lewis
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
- Craig A. Lewis
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer Hughes-Hanks, Craig A. Lewis
Affiliation Starling Enterprise, LLC, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
- Deborah M. Anderson
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* E-mail: andersondeb@missouri.edu
Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
Competing Interests
Starling Enterprises offers statistical analysis of biological data as well as consulting on study design and analysis. Dr. Lewis is the chief officer of this company and there are no associated commercial products. Dr. Lewis was provided with all raw data collected for survival, titer, cytokine and real time PCR experiments shown in the paper and he returned appropriate statistical analyses on these data. There was no competing financial interest with Starling Enterprise. This does not alter our adherence to all PLoS Pathogens policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AAP DMA. Performed the experiments: AAP. Analyzed the data: AAP JHH HLL CAL DMA. Wrote the paper: AAP DMA.