About the Authors

Mariano Carossino

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Louisiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory and Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Pouya Dini

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center, Department of Veterinary Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Theodore S. Kalbfleisch

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Current address: Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center, Department of Veterinary Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States of America

Alan T. Loynachan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation University of Kentucky Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

Igor F. Canisso

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, and Department of Comparative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

R. Frank Cook

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center, Department of Veterinary Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

Peter J. Timoney

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center, Department of Veterinary Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

Udeni B. R. Balasuriya

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

balasuriya1@lsu.edu

Affiliation Louisiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory and Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.