About the Authors

Elisabeth Lindahl-Rajala

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Reproduction, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Tove Hoffman

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Zoonosis Science Center and Department of Medical Science, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

David Fretin

Affiliation Unit Bacterial Zoonoses of livestock, Operational Direction Bacterial Diseases, Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Center, Brussels, Belgium

Jacques Godfroid

Affiliation Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of Tromsø - the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Nosirjon Sattorov

Affiliation Center for National Collection of Pathogenic Microorganisms, Institute of Biosafety Problems, Tajik Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Sofia Boqvist

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health, Division of Food Safety and Bacteriology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Åke Lundkvist

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Zoonosis Science Center and Department of Medical Science, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Ulf Magnusson

ulf.magnusson@slu.se

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Reproduction, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ELR SB UM. Data curation: ELR TH DF ÅL. Formal analysis: ELR TH DF JG. Funding acquisition: UM. Investigation: ELR TH DF NS. Methodology: ELR TH DF JG SB UM. Project administration: ELR JG UM. Resources: DF NS UM ÅL. Supervision: ELR DF JG ÅL UM. Validation: ELR TH DF JG SB UM. Visualization: ELR TH DF JG. Writing – original draft: ELR TH DF JG. Writing – review & editing: ELR TH DF JG NS SB ÅL UM.