About the Authors

Rosario Lovera

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires and Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires (IEGEBA), UBA-CONICET, Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

María Soledad Fernández

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires and Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires (IEGEBA), UBA-CONICET, Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jens Jacob

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants – Julius Kuehn Institute, Vertebrate Research, Münster, Germany

Nidia Lucero

Contributed equally to this work with: Nidia Lucero, Gabriel Morici, Bibiana Brihuega, María Isabel Farace

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán” (ANLIS), Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Gabriel Morici

Contributed equally to this work with: Nidia Lucero, Gabriel Morici, Bibiana Brihuega, María Isabel Farace

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Área de Parasitología, Instituto de Patobiología, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA Castelar), CICVyA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Bibiana Brihuega

Contributed equally to this work with: Nidia Lucero, Gabriel Morici, Bibiana Brihuega, María Isabel Farace

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratorio del Leptospirosis, Referencia OIE, Instituto de Patobiología, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA Castelar), CICVyA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

María Isabel Farace

Contributed equally to this work with: Nidia Lucero, Gabriel Morici, Bibiana Brihuega, María Isabel Farace

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán” (ANLIS), Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jorge Caracostantogolo

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Área de Parasitología, Instituto de Patobiología, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA Castelar), CICVyA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Regino Cavia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rcavia@ege.fcen.uba.ar

Affiliation Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires and Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires (IEGEBA), UBA-CONICET, Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.