About the Authors

Alicia Otero

Contributed equally to this work with: Alicia Otero, Tomás Barrio

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

Affiliation Centro de Encefalopatías y Enfermedades Transmisibles Emergentes, Universidad de Zaragoza, IA2, ISS Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain

Tomás Barrio

Contributed equally to this work with: Alicia Otero, Tomás Barrio

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

Affiliation UMR INRAE-ENVT 1225 Interactions Hôtes-Agents Pathogènes (IHAP), Institute Nationale de Recherche pour l’Alimentation, l’Agriculture et l’Environnement (INRAE)—École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (ENVT), Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

Hasier Eraña

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

Affiliations Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC BioGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Prion Research Lab, Derio, Spain, Atlas Molecular Pharma S. L., Derio, Spain

Jorge M. Charco

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC BioGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Prion Research Lab, Derio, Spain, Atlas Molecular Pharma S. L., Derio, Spain

Marina Betancor

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Centro de Encefalopatías y Enfermedades Transmisibles Emergentes, Universidad de Zaragoza, IA2, ISS Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain

Carlos M. Díaz-Domínguez

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC BioGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Prion Research Lab, Derio, Spain

Belén Marín

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Centro de Encefalopatías y Enfermedades Transmisibles Emergentes, Universidad de Zaragoza, IA2, ISS Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain

Olivier Andréoletti

Roles Resources

Affiliation UMR INRAE-ENVT 1225 Interactions Hôtes-Agents Pathogènes (IHAP), Institute Nationale de Recherche pour l’Alimentation, l’Agriculture et l’Environnement (INRAE)—École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (ENVT), Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

Juan M. Torres

Roles Resources

Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal, CISA-INIA, Valdeolmos, Madrid, Spain

Qingzhong Kong

Roles Resources

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Neurology & National Center for Regenerative Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Juan J. Badiola

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Centro de Encefalopatías y Enfermedades Transmisibles Emergentes, Universidad de Zaragoza, IA2, ISS Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain

Rosa Bolea

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

jcastilla@cicbiogune.es (JC); rbolea@unizar.es (RB).

Affiliation Centro de Encefalopatías y Enfermedades Transmisibles Emergentes, Universidad de Zaragoza, IA2, ISS Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain

Joaquín Castilla

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jcastilla@cicbiogune.es (JC); rbolea@unizar.es (RB).

Affiliations Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC BioGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Prion Research Lab, Derio, Spain, IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Carlos III National Health Institute, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.