About the Authors

Quintin Lee

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centenary Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Matthew P. Padula

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Proteomics Core Facility, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Natalia Pinello

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Centenary Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Simon H. Williams

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Center for Infection & Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

Matthew B. O'Rourke

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Marcilio Jorge Fumagalli

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Virology Research Center, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto of the University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Joseph D. Orkin

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Renhua Song

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Centenary Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Babak Shaban

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Melbourne Integrative Genomics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ori Brenner

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Resources, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

John E. Pimanda

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of New South Wales Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Wolfgang Weninger

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliations Centenary Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

William Marciel de Souza

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Virology Research Center, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto of the University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Amanda D. Melin

Roles Resources

Affiliations Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Medical Genetics and Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Justin J.-L. Wong

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centenary Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Marcus J. Crim

Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Microbiology and Aquatic Diagnostics, IDEXX BioAnalytics, Discovery Drive, Columbia, MO, United States of America

Sébastien Monette

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Comparative Pathology, Center of Comparative Medicine and Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America

Ben Roediger

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

ben.roediger@novartis.com (BR); c.jolly@unsw.edu.au (CJJ)

Affiliations Centenary Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Autoimmunity, Transplantation, Inflammation (ATI) Disease Area, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Christopher J. Jolly

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

ben.roediger@novartis.com (BR); c.jolly@unsw.edu.au (CJJ)

Affiliation Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of New South Wales Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Competing Interests

B.R. and W.W. are co-inventors on an international patent application (PCT/AU2018/050505) submitted by the Centenary Institute that is related to the detection and use of MKPV in research and commercial applications. M.J.C is an employee of IDEXX BioAnalytics, a division of IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., a veterinary diagnostics company with a commercial interest in MKPV. B.R. is presently an employee at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research. Novartis did not fund the study. IDEXX BioAnalytics and Novartis had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. All other authors declare no competing interests.