About the Authors

Jingjing Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingjing Wang, Yipeng Sun

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology and Zoonosis, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Yipeng Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingjing Wang, Yipeng Sun

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology and Zoonosis, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Qi Xu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology and Zoonosis, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Yuanyuan Tan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology and Zoonosis, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Juan Pu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology and Zoonosis, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Hanchun Yang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology and Zoonosis, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Earl G. Brown

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Emerging Pathogens Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jinhua Liu

ljh@cau.edu.cn

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology and Zoonosis, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, The Shandong Animal Disease Control Center, Jinan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL JW. Performed the experiments: JW QX YT. Analyzed the data: JW YS JP HY EB JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL YS JP. Wrote the paper: JW YS EB JL.