About the Authors

Hanaa Ahmed-Hassan

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

Affiliations Calgary Prion Research Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Zoonoses Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Dalia Abdelaziz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations Calgary Prion Research Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Yo-Ching Cheng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Calgary Prion Research Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Kevin Low

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Calgary Prion Research Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Shirley Phan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Calgary Prion Research Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Byron Kruger

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

Affiliations Calgary Prion Research Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Chimoné S. Dalton

Affiliations Calgary Prion Research Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Lech Kaczmarczyk

Roles Resources

Affiliation Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Walker S. Jackson

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Sabine Gilch

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Calgary Prion Research Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Hermann M. Schätzl

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

hschaetz@ucalgary.ca

Affiliations Calgary Prion Research Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.