About the Authors

Antonio Fasanella

a.fasanella@izsfg.it

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale of Puglia and Basilicata, Anthrax Reference Institute, Foggia, Italy

Silvia Scasciamacchia

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale of Puglia and Basilicata, Anthrax Reference Institute, Foggia, Italy

Giuliano Garofolo

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale of Puglia and Basilicata, Anthrax Reference Institute, Foggia, Italy

Annunziata Giangaspero

Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy

Elvira Tarsitano

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Valenzano (Bari), Italy

Rosanna Adone

Affiliation Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AF. Performed the experiments: AF SS GG AG. Analyzed the data: ET RA. Wrote the paper: RA.