About the Authors

Shumin Tan

Affiliation Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Neelima Sukumar

Affiliation Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Robert B. Abramovitch

Current address: Michigan State University, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America.

Affiliation Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Tanya Parish

Affiliation Infectious Disease Research Institute, and Department of Global Health, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington United States of America

David G. Russell

dgr8@cornell.edu

Affiliation Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST NS RBA DGR. Performed the experiments: ST NS. Analyzed the data: ST NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TP RBA. Wrote the paper: ST DGR.