About the Authors

Gunther Antonissen

Contributed equally to this work with: Gunther Antonissen, Mathias Devreese

Gunther.Antonissen@UGent.be

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium, Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Mathias Devreese

Contributed equally to this work with: Gunther Antonissen, Mathias Devreese

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Siegrid De Baere

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Tom Hellebuyck

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Isabel Van de Maele

Affiliation Department of Small Animal Medicine and Clinical Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Lieze Rouffaer

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Hendrickus J. J. Stemkens

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Patrick De Backer

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

An Martel

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Siska Croubels

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GA MD SDB TH IVDM PDB AM SC. Performed the experiments: GA MD SDB TH LR HJJS AM. Analyzed the data: GA MD SDB SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IVDM. Wrote the paper: GA MD SDB TH AM SC.