About the Authors

Madison Floyd

Contributed equally to this work with: Madison Floyd, Matthew Winn

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Matthew Winn

Contributed equally to this work with: Madison Floyd, Matthew Winn

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Christian Cullen

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Payel Sil

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Benoit Chassaing

Affiliation Center for Inflammation, Immunity, & Infection, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Dae-goon Yoo

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Andrew T. Gewirtz

Affiliation Center for Inflammation, Immunity, & Infection, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Joanna B. Goldberg

Affiliation Division of Pulmonology, Allergy/Immunology, Cystic Fibrosis and Sleep, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Linda L. McCarter

Affiliation Carver College of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Balázs Rada

radab@uga.edu

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BR. Formal analysis: BR MF. Funding acquisition: BR. Investigation: MF MW CC DY BR. Methodology: BR MF MW PS LLM. Project administration: BR. Resources: BC ATG LLM JBG. Supervision: BR LLM. Validation: BR. Visualization: MF MW LLM BR. Writing – original draft: BR. Writing – review & editing: BR BC ATG JBG LLM.