About the Authors

Roumaissa Gherbi

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

Affiliation Laboratory of Improvement and Development of Plant and Animal Production, University of Ferhat Abbas, Setif, Algeria

Mustapha Bounechada

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Improvement and Development of Plant and Animal Production, University of Ferhat Abbas, Setif, Algeria

Maria Stefania Latrofa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Bari, Valenzano, Bari, Italy

Giada Annoscia

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Bari, Valenzano, Bari, Italy

Viviana Domenica Tarallo

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Bari, Valenzano, Bari, Italy

Filipe Dantas-Torres

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Bari, Valenzano, Bari, Italy, Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Institute (Fiocruz), Recife, Brazil

Domenico Otranto

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

domenico.otranto@uniba.it

Affiliations Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Bari, Valenzano, Bari, Italy, Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bu-Ali Sina University, Felestin Sq., Hamedan, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.