About the Authors

Beatriz Garcia-Morante

Affiliations IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain, Boehringer Ingelheim España S.A., Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain

Joaquim Segalés

Affiliations UAB, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain, Departament de Sanitat i Anatomia Animals, Facultat de Veterinària, Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Lorenzo Fraile

Affiliation Departament de Ciència Animal, ETSEA, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain

Gemma Llardén

Affiliation IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Teresa Coll

Affiliation Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Research Center GmbH&Co., Hannover, Germany

Marina Sibila

marina.sibila@irta.cat

Affiliation IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Competing Interests

B. Garcia-Morante and T. Coll are employees of Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health GmbH. BGM and TC commercial affiliation does not alter the adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JS MS. Data curation: BGM GL. Formal analysis: BGM LF. Funding acquisition: MS BGM TC. Investigation: BGM JS GL MS. Methodology: BGM JS LF MS. Project administration: BGM JS MS. Resources: JS LF TC MS. Supervision: JS MS. Validation: BGM JS MS. Visualization: BGM JS LF GL TC MS. Writing – original draft: BGM. Writing – review & editing: BGM JS LF GL TC MS.