About the Authors

Macarena P. Quintana-Hayashi

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Siddhartha Thakur

sthakur@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST. Performed the experiments: MQH. Analyzed the data: MQH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MQH ST. Wrote the paper: MQH ST.