About the Authors
- Karoly Toth
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Contributed equally to this work with: Karoly Toth, Sang R. Lee, Baoling Ying
Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Sang R. Lee
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Contributed equally to this work with: Karoly Toth, Sang R. Lee, Baoling Ying
Affiliation Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America
- Baoling Ying
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Contributed equally to this work with: Karoly Toth, Sang R. Lee, Baoling Ying
Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Jacqueline F. Spencer
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Ann E. Tollefson
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- John E. Sagartz
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Affiliation Department of Comparative Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Il-Keun Kong
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Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Division of Applied Life Science and Institute of Agriculture and Life Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Republic of Korea
- Zhongde Wang
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* E-mail: zonda.wang@usu.edu (ZW); woldws@slu.edu (WSMW)
¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliation Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America
- William S. M. Wold
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* E-mail: zonda.wang@usu.edu (ZW); woldws@slu.edu (WSMW)
¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KT ZW WSMW. Performed the experiments: KT SRL BY JFS AET JES. Analyzed the data: KT ZW WSMW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IKK. Wrote the paper: KT ZW WSMW.