About the Authors

Gongguan Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Osama Abas

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Current address: Department of Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Ashley B. Strickland

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Yanli Chen

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Meiqing Shi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mshi@umd.edu

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.