About the Authors

Carmen Espinosa-Gongora

cesg@vet.dtu.dk (CEG); LGuardabassi@rossvet.edu.kn (LG)

Current address: National Veterinary Institute, Danish Technical University, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

Niels Larsen

Affiliation Danish Genome Institute, Aarhus, Denmark

Kristian Schønning

Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hvidovre University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Merete Fredholm

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

Luca Guardabassi

cesg@vet.dtu.dk (CEG); LGuardabassi@rossvet.edu.kn (LG)

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Basseterre, Saint Kitts Nevis, West Indies

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CEG LG. Performed the experiments: CEG NL KS MF. Analyzed the data: CEG NL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CEG NL KS MF LG. Wrote the paper: CEG NL KS MF LG.