About the Authors

Dominic Ritler

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Reto Rufener

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Heinz Sager

Affiliation Elanco Animal Health, Basel, Switzerland

Jacques Bouvier

Affiliation Elanco Animal Health, Basel, Switzerland

Andrew Hemphill

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Britta Lundström-Stadelmann

Britta.lundstroem@vetsuisse.unibe.ch

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

Novartis Animal Health (St. Aubin, Switzerland) and Elanco (Basel, Switzerland) were funders of this study and had a role in the study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, and were also involved in the preparation of the manuscript. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS policies on sharing data and materials."

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BLS HS DR RR JB AH. Data curation: DR BLS RR. Formal analysis: DR BLS RR. Funding acquisition: BLS AH HS JB. Investigation: DR BLS RR AH. Methodology: BLS HS JB DR RR AH. Project administration: BLS HS AH. Resources: AH HS JB BLS. Software: DR BLS. Supervision: BLS AH HS JB. Validation: DR BLS AH. Visualization: DR BLS. Writing – original draft: BLS. Writing – review & editing: DR RR HS JB AH BLS.