About the Authors

Marco Genchi

marco.genchi@libero.it

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Tularemia, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna “Bruno Ubertini”, Pavia, Italy

Paola Prati

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Tularemia, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna “Bruno Ubertini”, Pavia, Italy

Nadia Vicari

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Tularemia, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna “Bruno Ubertini”, Pavia, Italy

Andrea Manfredini

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Tularemia, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna “Bruno Ubertini”, Pavia, Italy

Luciano Sacchi

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology (Lazzaro Spallanzani), Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Emanuela Clementi

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology (Lazzaro Spallanzani), Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Claudio Bandi

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science and Public Health (Divet), Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Sara Epis

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science and Public Health (Divet), Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Massimo Fabbi

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Tularemia, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna “Bruno Ubertini”, Pavia, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG PP CB MF. Performed the experiments: MG PP. Analyzed the data: MG NV AM LS EC SE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LS CB MF. Wrote the paper: MG NV CB MF.