About the Authors

Rui Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Guo, Xingyu Yan, Yanhua Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Current address: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States America

Xingyu Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Guo, Xingyu Yan, Yanhua Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States America, Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States America

Yanhua Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Guo, Xingyu Yan, Yanhua Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Current address: Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States America

Jin Cui

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

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

Saurav Misra

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, College of Arts and Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States America

Andrew E. Firth

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Eric J. Snijder

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Ying Fang

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

yingf@illinois.edu

Affiliations Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States America, Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.