About the Authors

Sushil Khatiwada

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Gustavo Delhon

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Science, Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Ponnuraj Nagendraprabhu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Sabal Chaulagain

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Shuhong Luo

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Biomedical Engineering, Foshan University, Chancheng District, Foshan, Guangdong Province, P.R. China

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Diego G. Diel

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Eduardo F. Flores

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva, Centro de Ciências Rurais, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Daniel L. Rock

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dlrock@illinois.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.