About the Authors

Richard Reeve

richard.reeve@glasgow.ac.uk

Affiliations Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Belinda Blignaut

Affiliations Transboundary Animal Diseases Programme, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Jan J. Esterhuysen

Affiliation Transboundary Animal Diseases Programme, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa

Pamela Opperman

Affiliations Transboundary Animal Diseases Programme, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Louise Matthews

Affiliations Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Elizabeth E. Fry

Affiliation Division of Structural Biology, The Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, Headington, United Kingdom

Tjaart A. P. de Beer

Current address: EMBL – European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Jacques Theron

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Elizabeth Rieder

Affiliation Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Greenport, New York, United States of America

Wilna Vosloo

Current address: Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

Affiliation Transboundary Animal Diseases Programme, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa

Hester G. O'Neill

Affiliation Biochemistry Division, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

Daniel T. Haydon

Affiliations Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Francois F. Maree

Affiliation Transboundary Animal Diseases Programme, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BB EEF JT ER WV HGO DTH FFM. Performed the experiments: BB JJE PO EEF HGO FFM. Analyzed the data: RR BB PO LM EEF TAPdB JT DTH FFM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RR. Wrote the paper: RR BB PO LM JT ER WV HGO DTH FFM. Designed the modelling framework: RR LM.