About the Authors

Mauro Delogu

mauro.delogu@unibo.it

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Animal Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna, Ozzano Emilia, Italy

Maria A. De Marco

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Livia Di Trani

Affiliation Department of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Elisabetta Raffini

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia-Romagna, Lugo, Italy

Claudia Cotti

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Animal Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna, Ozzano Emilia, Italy

Simona Puzelli

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Fabio Ostanello

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Animal Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna, Ozzano Emilia, Italy

Robert G. Webster

Affiliation Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Antonio Cassone

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Isabella Donatelli

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MD MADM. Performed the experiments: MD MADM LDT ER CC SP RGW. Analyzed the data: MD CC FO RGW ID. Wrote the paper: MADM RGW AC ID.