Sawsan Ammar,^1,2 Tania J. Dawant,¹ Janetta Kelly,³ Graham Hickling,³ Justin Brown,⁴ Kyle Van Why,⁵ Rebecca Poulson,⁶ Chunlei Su,⁷ Richard Gerhold<sup>1,*

1</sup>Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, 2407 River Drive, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
²Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sadat City, 1 Abdelmenam Ryad Street, Sadat City, Menofia 32511, Egypt
³Depart-ment of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries, University of Tennessee, 427 Plant Biotechnology Building, University of Tennessee, 2505 E. J. Chapman Drive, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
⁴Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Agricultural Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 108 AVBS Building, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
⁵USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, PO Box 60827, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17110, USA
⁶Southeast-ern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, 589 D. W. Brooks Drive, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
⁷Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, 1311 Cumberland Avenue, 307 Ken and Blaire Mossman Building, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA

^*Corresponding author (email: rgerhold@utk.edu)