About the Authors

Androniki Psifidi

androniki.psifidi@roslin.ed.ac.uk

Affiliations Animal Production Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Chrysostomos I. Dovas

Affiliation Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Georgios Bramis

Affiliation Animal Production Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Thomai Lazou

Affiliation Food safety Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Claire L. Russel

Affiliation Department of Clinical Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol, Langford House, Langford, Bristol, United Kingdom

Georgios Arsenos

Affiliation Animal Production Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Georgios Banos

Affiliations Animal Production Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Scotland’s Rural College, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP CID G. Banos. Performed the experiments: AP CID G. Bramis TL CLR. Analyzed the data: AP G. Banos. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP G. Bramis GA. Wrote the paper: AP CID G. Bramis TL CLR GA G. Banos.