About the Authors

Ulrich Wernery

Affiliation Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Chunhai Liu

Affiliation Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Vijay Baskar

Affiliation Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Zhor Guerineche

Affiliation Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Kamal A. Khazanehdari

Affiliation Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Shazia Saleem

Affiliation Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Jörg Kinne

Affiliation Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Renate Wernery

Affiliation Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Darren K. Griffin

Contributed equally to this work with: Darren K. Griffin, Il-Kuk Chang

d.k.griffin@kent.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

Il-Kuk Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Darren K. Griffin, Il-Kuk Chang

Affiliation Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UW CL I-KC. Performed the experiments: CL VB ZG KAK SS I-KC. Analyzed the data: CL KAK SS JK DKG I-KC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UW KAK RW CL. Wrote the paper: UW CL KAK JK I-KC DKG.