About the Authors

Richar Rodríguez-Hidalgo

Contributed equally to this work with: Richar Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Ximena Pérez-Otáñez

rrodriguez@uce.edu.ec

Affiliations Instituto de Investigación en Salud Pública y Zoonosis / Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia / Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Ximena Pérez-Otáñez

Contributed equally to this work with: Richar Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Ximena Pérez-Otáñez

Affiliation Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia / Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Sandra Garcés-Carrera

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Quito, Ecuador

Sophie O. Vanwambeke

Affiliation Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate research, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Maxime Madder

Affiliations Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Washington Benítez-Ortiz

Affiliations Instituto de Investigación en Salud Pública y Zoonosis / Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia / Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RR MM WB. Data curation: RR XP. Formal analysis: RR XP. Funding acquisition: RR WB. Investigation: XP RR SG. Methodology: MM SV SG. Project administration: RR WB. Resources: RR SG. Supervision: RR MM SV. Validation: RR SV SG. Visualization: RR SG. Writing – original draft: RR XP SG. Writing – review & editing: SV SG WB.