About the Authors

Levente Kovács

Contributed equally to this work with: Levente Kovács, Fruzsina Luca Kézér

Kovacs.Levente@mkk.szie.hu

Affiliations MTA–SZIE Large Animal Clinical Research Group, Üllő-Dóra major, H-2225, Hungary, Institute of Animal Husbandry, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science, Szent István University, Páter Károly u. 1, Gödöllő, H-2100, Hungary

Fruzsina Luca Kézér

Contributed equally to this work with: Levente Kovács, Fruzsina Luca Kézér

Affiliations MTA–SZIE Large Animal Clinical Research Group, Üllő-Dóra major, H-2225, Hungary, Institute of Animal Husbandry, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science, Szent István University, Páter Károly u. 1, Gödöllő, H-2100, Hungary

Mikolt Bakony

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Rumino-Vet Bt., Csillés utca 2., Érd, H-2030, Hungary

Levente Hufnágel

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute of Crop Production, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science, Szent István University, Páter Károly u. 1, Gödöllő, H-2100, Hungary

János Tőzsér

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science, Szent István University, Páter Károly u. 1, Gödöllő, H-2100, Hungary

Viktor Jurkovich

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Animal Hygiene, Herd Health and Veterinary Ethology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Szent István University, István u. 2, Budapest, H-1078, Hungary

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LK. Performed the experiments: LK FLK. Analyzed the data: LK LH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JT. Wrote the paper: LK. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript, especially correcting the English: VJ MB.