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The following corrections of the affiliations of the authors are being made. Yi Zhao, College of Veterinary Medicine and Key Laboratory of the Provincial Education Department of Heilongjiang for Common Animal Disease Prevention and Treatment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, P. R. China; phone, +86 451 55190407; email, zhaoyi@neau.edu.cn. Jin-Long Li, College of Veterinary Medicine

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