About the Authors

Esther Collantes-Fernandez

esthercf@vet.ucm.es (EC); antonio.barragan@ki.se (AB)

Affiliations Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden, SALUVET, Animal Health Department, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Romanico B. G. Arrighi

Affiliations Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Gema Álvarez-García

Affiliation SALUVET, Animal Health Department, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Jessica M. Weidner

Affiliations Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Javier Regidor-Cerrillo

Affiliation SALUVET, Animal Health Department, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

John C. Boothroyd

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Luis M. Ortega-Mora

Affiliation SALUVET, Animal Health Department, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Antonio Barragan

esthercf@vet.ucm.es (EC); antonio.barragan@ki.se (AB)

Affiliations Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EC AB. Performed the experiments: EC RA JW JR. Analyzed the data: EC RA JW JR AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GA JCB LMO. Wrote the paper: EC AB. Guided the method development and data analysis: EC AB.