About the Authors

Magen Ellen Francis

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

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization VIDO, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Una Goncin

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Andrea Kroeker

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization VIDO, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Cynthia Swan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization VIDO, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Robyn Ralph

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization VIDO, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Yao Lu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization VIDO, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Athema Louise Etzioni

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Tuskegee University College of Veterinary Medicine, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, United States of America

Darryl Falzarano

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization VIDO, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Volker Gerdts

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization VIDO, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Steven Machtaler

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Jason Kindrachuk

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization VIDO, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Laboratory of Emerging and Re-Emerging Viruses, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Alyson Ann Kelvin

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

alyson.kelvin@usask.ca

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization VIDO, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Disease, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Canadian Centre for Vaccinology, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interests exist.