About the Authors

Zhe Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhe Ma, Jie Peng

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Animal Bacteriology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Jie Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhe Ma, Jie Peng

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Dandan Yu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Joseph S. Park

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Huixing Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Animal Bacteriology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Bin Xu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Chengping Lu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Hongjie Fan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

fhj@njau.edu.cn (HF); mwaldor@research.bwh.harvard.edu (MKW)

Affiliations MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Animal Bacteriology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Matthew K. Waldor

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

fhj@njau.edu.cn (HF); mwaldor@research.bwh.harvard.edu (MKW)

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.