About the Authors
- Yan D. Niu
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Affiliation Lethbridge Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
- Kim Stanford
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Affiliation Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, Agriculture Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
- Andrew M. Kropinski
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Affiliations Public Health Agency of Canada, Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- Hans-Wolfgang Ackermann
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Affiliation Département de microbiologie, Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Quebec, Canada
- Roger P. Johnson
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Affiliation Public Health Agency of Canada, Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- Yi-Min She
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Affiliation Center for Vaccine Evaluation, Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Rafiq Ahmed
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Affiliation Public Health Agency of Canada, National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Andre Villegas
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Affiliation Public Health Agency of Canada, Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- Tim A. McAllister
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* E-mail: tim.mcallister@agr.gc.ca
Affiliation Lethbridge Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YDN KS TAM. Performed the experiments: YDN HWA RPJ YMS RA. Analyzed the data: YDN AMK AV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS TAM RPJ RA. Wrote the paper: YDN KS AMK HWA RPJ YMS TAM.