About the Authors
- Frank Pasmans
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Contributed equally to this work with: Frank Pasmans, Pascale Van Rooij, An Martel, Sebastiano Salvidio
Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Pascale Van Rooij
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Contributed equally to this work with: Frank Pasmans, Pascale Van Rooij, An Martel, Sebastiano Salvidio
* E-mail: pascale.vanrooij@ugent.be
Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Mark Blooi
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Giulia Tessa
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Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy, Zirichiltaggi – Sardinia Wildlife Conservation, Sassari, Italy
- Sergé Bogaerts
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Affiliation Waalre, The Netherlands
- Giuseppe Sotgiu
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Affiliation Zirichiltaggi – Sardinia Wildlife Conservation, Sassari, Italy
- Trenton W. J. Garner
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Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom
- Matthew C. Fisher
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College, School of Public Health, London, United Kingdom
- Benedikt R. Schmidt
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Affiliations Institut für Evolutionsbiologie und Umweltwissenschaften, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Koordinationsstelle für Amphibien- und Reptilienschutz in der Schweiz, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Tonnie Woeltjes
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Affiliation Stichting Reptielen, Amfibieën en Vissen Onderzoek Nederland, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Wouter Beukema
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Affiliation Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
- Stefano Bovero
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Affiliation Zirichiltaggi – Sardinia Wildlife Conservation, Sassari, Italy
- Connie Adriaensen
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Fabrizio Oneto
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell’Ambiente e della Vita, Università di Genova, Genova, Italia
- Dario Ottonello
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell’Ambiente e della Vita, Università di Genova, Genova, Italia
- An Martel
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Contributed equally to this work with: Frank Pasmans, Pascale Van Rooij, An Martel, Sebastiano Salvidio
Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Sebastiano Salvidio
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Contributed equally to this work with: Frank Pasmans, Pascale Van Rooij, An Martel, Sebastiano Salvidio
Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell’Ambiente e della Vita, Università di Genova, Genova, Italia
Competing Interests
The authors confirm hereby that co-authors Matthew C. Fisher and Benedikt R. Schmidt are PLOS ONE Editorial Board members. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: FP TWJG MCF SS. Performed the experiments: FP PVR MB GT SB GS TW SB CA FO DO AM SS. Analyzed the data: FP PVR MB GT WB BRS AM SS. Wrote the paper: FP PVR TWJG MCF WB BRS AM SS.