About the Authors

Alessia Franco

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana “M. Aleandri”, National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance, Via Appia Nuova 1411, 00178, Rome, Italy

Pimlapas Leekitcharoenphon

Affiliation National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, WHO Collaborating Center for Antimicrobial Resistance in Food borne Pathogens, and European Union Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Fabiola Feltrin

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana “M. Aleandri”, National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance, Via Appia Nuova 1411, 00178, Rome, Italy

Patricia Alba

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana “M. Aleandri”, National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance, Via Appia Nuova 1411, 00178, Rome, Italy

Gessica Cordaro

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana “M. Aleandri”, National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance, Via Appia Nuova 1411, 00178, Rome, Italy

Manuela Iurescia

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana “M. Aleandri”, National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance, Via Appia Nuova 1411, 00178, Rome, Italy

Rita Tolli

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana “M. Aleandri”, National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance, Via Appia Nuova 1411, 00178, Rome, Italy

Mario D’Incau

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia–Romagna ‘‘Bruno Ubertini”, Via Bianchi 9, 25124, Brescia, Italy

Monica Staffolani

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Umbria e delle Marche, Sezione di Macerata, Via dei Velini, 15, 62100, Macerata, Italy

Elisabetta Di Giannatale

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale”, Via Campo Boario, 64100, Teramo, Italy

Rene S. Hendriksen

Affiliation National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, WHO Collaborating Center for Antimicrobial Resistance in Food borne Pathogens, and European Union Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Antonio Battisti

antonio.battisti@izslt.it

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana “M. Aleandri”, National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance, Via Appia Nuova 1411, 00178, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AF PL RSH AB. Performed the experiments: AF PL FF GC MI PA. Analyzed the data: AF PL PA RSH AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AF PL MD ED RT MS RSH AB. Wrote the paper: AF PL RSH AB.