About the Authors

Aline Rodrigues Hoffmann

arodrigues@cvm.tamu.edu

Affiliation Dermatopathology Specialty Service, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Adam P. Patterson

Affiliation Clinical Dermatology Service, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Alison Diesel

Affiliation Clinical Dermatology Service, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Sara D. Lawhon

Affiliation Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Hoai Jaclyn Ly

Affiliation Dermatopathology Specialty Service, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Christine Elkins Stephenson

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Joanne Mansell

Affiliation Dermatopathology Specialty Service, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Jörg M. Steiner

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Scot E. Dowd

Affiliation MR DNA Laboratory, Shallowater, Texas, United States of America

Thierry Olivry

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, and Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Jan S. Suchodolski

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

Co-author Scot E. Dowd is an employee of MR DNA (Molecular Research), Shallowater and co-author Jan Suchodolski is a member of the PLOS ONE Editorial Board. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ARH APP AD SDL JM JMS TO JSS. Performed the experiments: ARH APP AD CES SED. Analyzed the data: ARH HJL SED JSS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ARH JMS SED JSS. Wrote the paper: ARH APP AD HJL SDL JM JMS TO JSS.