About the Authors

Ming Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Zhou, Guoqing Zhang, Guiping Ren

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Animal Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Departments of Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Key Laboratory of Zoonosis of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Guoqing Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Zhou, Guoqing Zhang, Guiping Ren

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Guiping Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Zhou, Guoqing Zhang, Guiping Ren

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Clement W. Gnanadurai

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Zhenguang Li

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Qingqing Chai

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Yang Yang

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Christina M. Leyson

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Wenxue Wu

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

Min Cui

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Animal Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Zhen F. Fu

zhenfu@uga.edu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Animal Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Departments of Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZFF. Performed the experiments: MZ GZ GR CG ZL QC YY. Analyzed the data: ZFF WW MZ GZ GR CG MC. Wrote the paper: MZ CG CL ZFF.