About the Authors

Sylvia Grune Loffler

Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvia Grune Loffler, Mara Martínez, Monica Florin-Christensen, Graciela Romero, Bibiana Brihuega

grune.sylvia@inta.gob.ar

Affiliations Institute of Pathobiology, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Virginia Rago

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Institute of Ecology, Genetics and Evolution, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Southern Right Whale Health Monitoring Program, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina

Mara Martínez

Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvia Grune Loffler, Mara Martínez, Monica Florin-Christensen, Graciela Romero, Bibiana Brihuega

Affiliation Institute of Pathobiology, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Marcela Uhart

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Southern Right Whale Health Monitoring Program, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina, One Health Institute, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Monica Florin-Christensen

Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvia Grune Loffler, Mara Martínez, Monica Florin-Christensen, Graciela Romero, Bibiana Brihuega

Affiliations Institute of Pathobiology, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Graciela Romero

Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvia Grune Loffler, Mara Martínez, Monica Florin-Christensen, Graciela Romero, Bibiana Brihuega

Affiliation Institute of Pathobiology, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Bibiana Brihuega

Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvia Grune Loffler, Mara Martínez, Monica Florin-Christensen, Graciela Romero, Bibiana Brihuega

Current address: Laboratory of Leptospirosis, Institute of Pathobiology, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Affiliation Institute of Pathobiology, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SGL BB GR MFC MM. Performed the experiments: SGL MM. Analyzed the data: SGL BB MFC GR MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VR MU BB SGL MM. Wrote the paper: SGL BB MFC MM MU VR.