About the Authors

Carlo Andrea Cossu

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

ca.cossu@tuks.co.za

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa

Jeanette Wentzel

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

Affiliation Wildlife Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa

Lin-Mari de Klerk

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Office of the State Veterinarian, Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Skukuza, South Africa

Fabrizio De Massis

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National and WOAH reference laboratory for brucellosis, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale”, Teramo, Italy

Jacques Godfroid

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Louis Ockert van Schalkwyk

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Office of the State Veterinarian, Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Skukuza, South Africa

Giuliano Garofolo

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

Affiliation National and WOAH reference laboratory for brucellosis, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale”, Teramo, Italy

Henriette van Heerden

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

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.