About the Authors

Susana P. Alves

Affiliation CIISA – Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação em Sanidade Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária/UTL, Lisboa, Portugal

Rui J. B. Bessa

Affiliation CIISA – Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação em Sanidade Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária/UTL, Lisboa, Portugal

Mário A. G. Quaresma

Affiliation CIISA – Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação em Sanidade Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária/UTL, Lisboa, Portugal

Tanya Kilminster

Affiliation DAFWA – Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Tim Scanlon

Affiliation DAFWA – Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Chris Oldham

Affiliation DAFWA – Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

John Milton

Affiliation Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, UWA – University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Johan Greeff

Affiliation DAFWA – Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

André M. Almeida

aalmeida@fmv.utl.pt

Affiliations CIISA – Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação em Sanidade Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária/UTL, Lisboa, Portugal, Biotrop, IICT – Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisboa, Portugal, IBET – Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Oeiras, Portugal, BCV, ITQB/UNL – Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK TS CO JM JG AMA. Performed the experiments: SPA RJBB MAGQ TK TS AMA. Analyzed the data: SPA RJBB AMA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SPA RJBB MAGQ AMA. Wrote the paper: SPA RJBB AMA.