About the Authors

Alessandra Mistral De Pascali

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Section of Microbiology, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Renato Todeschini

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unit of Hygiene and Public Health, Department of Public Health, AUSL Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Simone Baiocchi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Microbiology Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Margherita Ortalli

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Microbiology Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Luciano Attard

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Ana Victoria Ibarra-Meneses

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, National Centre for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda (Madrid), Spain, CIBERINFEC, Département de pathologie et microbiologie, Faculté de médecine vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, The Research Group on Infectious Diseases in Production Animals (GREMIP), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

Eugenia Carrillo

Contributed equally to this work with: Eugenia Carrillo, Stefania Varani

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

ecarrillo@isciii.es (EC); stefania.varani@unibo.it (SV)

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, National Centre for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda (Madrid), Spain, CIBERINFEC

Stefania Varani

Contributed equally to this work with: Eugenia Carrillo, Stefania Varani

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

ecarrillo@isciii.es (EC); stefania.varani@unibo.it (SV)

Affiliations Section of Microbiology, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Microbiology Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.