About the Authors

Christian Klotz

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

klotzc@rki.de

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit for Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Katja Winter

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bioinformatics Core Facility (MF1), Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Marc W. Schmid

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MWSchmid GmbH, Glarus, Switzerland

Stephan Fuchs

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bioinformatics Core Facility (MF1), Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Anna Rosa Sannella

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Umer Chaudhry

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, Lewyt College of Veterinary Medicine, Long Island University, Brookville, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Discipline of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey, Surrey, United Kingdom

Jacinto Gomes

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Elvas School of Biosciences, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portalegre, Portugal, VALORIZA – Research Centre for Endogenous Resources Valorization, Portalegre, Portugal

Ralf Ignatius

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MVZ Labor 28, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

Toni Aebischer

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit for Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Martha Betson

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Discipline of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey, Surrey, United Kingdom

Karin Troell

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Swedish Veterinary Agency, Uppsala, Sweden, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Ås, Norway

Simone M. Cacciò

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.