About the Authors

Mariam Bakshi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Animal Parasitic Diseases Lab, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, TAMU, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Tae Kwon Kim

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, TAMU, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Lindsay Porter

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, TAMU, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Waithaka Mwangi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, TAMU, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Albert Mulenga

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

amulenga@cvm.tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, TAMU, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.