About the Authors

Donald F. Smee

don.smee@usu.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences, Institute for Antiviral Research, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Min-Hui Wong

Affiliation Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences, Institute for Antiviral Research, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Brett L. Hurst

Affiliation Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences, Institute for Antiviral Research, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Jane Ennis

Affiliation Defyrus, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jeffrey D. Turner

Affiliation Defyrus, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: JE and JDT are employees of Defyrus, Inc. and are responsible for the development of DEF201 which may be developed as a product in the future. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DFS JE JDT. Performed the experiments: MHW BLH. Analyzed the data: DFS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JE JDT. Wrote the paper: DFS JE JDT.