About the Authors

Emmanuelle Robardet

emmanuelle.robardet@anses.fr

Affiliation ANSES, Nancy Laboratory for Rabies and Wildlife, Bâtiment H, Technopôle Agricole et Vétérinaire, CS 40 009, Malzéville, France

Evelyne Picard-Meyer

Affiliation ANSES, Nancy Laboratory for Rabies and Wildlife, Bâtiment H, Technopôle Agricole et Vétérinaire, CS 40 009, Malzéville, France

Marianna Dobroštana

Affiliation BIOR, Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment "BIOR", Riga, Latvia

Ingrida Jaceviciene

Affiliations National Food and Veterinary Risk Assessment Institute of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, Vilniaus Kolegija/University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Agrotechnologies, Buivydiškės, Vilnius district, Lithuania

Katrin Mähar

Affiliation Estonian Veterinary and Food Laboratory, Tartu, Estonia

Zita Muižniece

Affiliation BIOR, Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment "BIOR", Riga, Latvia

Gediminas Pridotkas

Affiliation National Food and Veterinary Risk Assessment Institute of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania

Marius Masiulis

Affiliation State Food and Veterinary Service, Vilnius, Lithuania

Enel Niin

Affiliation Estonian Veterinary and Food Board, Tallin, Estonia

Edvīns Olševskis

Affiliations BIOR, Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment "BIOR", Riga, Latvia, Food and Veterinary Service, Riga, Latvia

Florence Cliquet

Affiliation ANSES, Nancy Laboratory for Rabies and Wildlife, Bâtiment H, Technopôle Agricole et Vétérinaire, CS 40 009, Malzéville, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FC EO EN MM GP ER. Performed the experiments: EPM MD IJ KM ZM. Analyzed the data: ER EPM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EPM MD IJ KM ZM. Wrote the paper: ER FC EPM.