About the Authors

Longhuan Ma

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

longhuanma@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Kalyan K. Dewan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Dawn L. Taylor-Mulneix

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Shannon M. Wagner

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Bodo Linz

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Israel Rivera

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Yang Su

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Amanda D. Caulfield

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Uriel Blas-Machado

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Athens Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Eric T. Harvill

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

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.