About the Authors

Bryce M. Warner

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Robert Vendramelli

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Amrit S. Boese

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Jonathan Audet

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Nikesh Tailor

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Courtney Meilleur

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Nathan Glowach

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Marnie Willman

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Thang Truong

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Estella Moffat

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation National Centre for Foreign Animal Diseases, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Kevin Tierney

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Beata Kosak

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Orion Biotechnology Polska, Krakow, Poland

Irfan Dhanidina

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Orion Biotechnology, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jarret Engstrom

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Orion Biotechnology, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Bozena Korczak

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Orion Biotechnology Polska, Krakow, Poland

Ian McGowan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Orion Biotechnology Polska, Krakow, Poland

Carissa Embury-Hyatt

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Centre for Foreign Animal Diseases, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Darwyn Kobasa

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

darwyn.kobasa@phac-aspc.gc.ca

Affiliations Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Beata Kosak, Irfan Dhanidina, Jarret Engstrom, Bozena Korczak, Ian McGowan are employees of Orion Biotechnology, a commercial company, which developed OB-002. All other authors declare no conflicts of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.