About the Authors

Laura Pirisinu

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

Michele Di Bari

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

Stefano Marcon

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

Gabriele Vaccari

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

Claudia D'Agostino

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

Paola Fazzi

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

Elena Esposito

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

Roberta Galeno

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Jan Langeveld

Affiliation Central Veterinary Institute, Wageningen UR, Lelystad, The Netherlands

Umberto Agrimi

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

Romolo Nonno

romolo.nonno@iss.it

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LP RN. Performed the experiments: LP SM GV PF EE. Analyzed the data: LP RN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MADB CD RG JL. Wrote the paper: LP JL UA RN.