About the Authors

Nicoletta Formenti

nicoletta_formenti@yahoo.it

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences and Public Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Tiziana Trogu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences and Public Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Luca Pedrotti

Affiliation Consorzio Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, Bormio (Sondrio), Italy

Alessandra Gaffuri

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna ‘‘Bruno Ubertini”, Bergamo, Italy

Paolo Lanfranchi

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences and Public Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Nicola Ferrari

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences and Public Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: N. Formenti PL N. Ferrari. Performed the experiments: N. Formenti TT AG. Analyzed the data: N. Formenti LP N. Ferrari. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG LP PL. Wrote the paper: N. Formenti TT LP AG PL N. Ferrari.