About the Authors

Paidashe Hove

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

Affiliations Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases (CEVBD), Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America, Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, St. George’s University, West Indies, Grenada

Swetha Madesh

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

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases (CEVBD), Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Arathy Nair

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases (CEVBD), Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Deborah Jaworski

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

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases (CEVBD), Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Huitao Liu

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

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases (CEVBD), Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Jonathan Ferm

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

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases (CEVBD), Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Michael D. Kleinhenz

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Margaret A. Highland

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

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases (CEVBD), Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Andrew K. Curtis

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Physiology and, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Johann F. Coetzee

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Physiology and, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Susan M. Noh

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

Affiliation Animal Diseases Research Unit, USDA-ARS, 3003 ADBF, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Ying Wang

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

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases (CEVBD), Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Dominica Genda

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases (CEVBD), Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Roman R. Ganta

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

rganta@vet.k-state.edu

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases (CEVBD), Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.