About the Authors

Henan Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Henan Zhu, Batchuluun Damdinjav, Gaelle Gonzalez, Livia Victoria Patrono

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Batchuluun Damdinjav

Contributed equally to this work with: Henan Zhu, Batchuluun Damdinjav, Gaelle Gonzalez, Livia Victoria Patrono

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Central Veterinary Laboratory, Transboundary Animal Disease Laboratory, Avian Influenza Section, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Gaelle Gonzalez

Contributed equally to this work with: Henan Zhu, Batchuluun Damdinjav, Gaelle Gonzalez, Livia Victoria Patrono

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Livia Victoria Patrono

Contributed equally to this work with: Henan Zhu, Batchuluun Damdinjav, Gaelle Gonzalez, Livia Victoria Patrono

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Project Group Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Humberto Ramirez-Mendoza

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología e Inmunología, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, México

Julien A. R. Amat

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Joanna Crispell

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Yasmin Amy Parr

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Toni-ann Hammond

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal Health Trust, Lanwades Park, Kentford, Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Enkhtuvshin Shiilegdamba

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY, United States of America

Y. H. Connie Leung

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, Laboratory Animal Unit, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

Malik Peiris

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

John F. Marshall

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Weipers Centre Equine Hospital, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Joseph Hughes

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Martin Gilbert

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY, United States of America, Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Science, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Pablo R. Murcia

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Pablo.Murcia@glasgow.ac.uk

Affiliation MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.