About the Authors

Ivona Mladineo

mladineo@izor.hr

Affiliation Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Laboratory of Aquaculture, Split, Croatia

Vedran Poljak

Affiliation Health Ecology Department, Croatian National Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia

Victoria Martínez-Sernández

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Florencio M. Ubeira

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IM VP FMU. Performed the experiments: VP VMS. Analyzed the data: IM VP VMS FMU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IM VP FMU. Wrote the paper: IM FMU VP. Obtained permission of the Ethics Committee and designed the questionnaire: VP.