About the Authors
- Lieze Oscar Rouffaer
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* E-mail: Lieze.Rouffaer@UGent.be
Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Kristof Baert
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Affiliation Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Brussels, Belgium
- Anne-Marie Van den Abeele
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Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, AZ Sint Lucas Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
- Ivo Cox
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Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, AZ Sint Lucas Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
- Gerty Vanantwerpen
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Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Lieven De Zutter
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Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Diederik Strubbe
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium
- Katleen Vranckx
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Affiliation Applied Maths NV, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium
- Luc Lens
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Affiliation Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Freddy Haesebrouck
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Michel Delmée
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Affiliation Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
- Frank Pasmans
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
- An Martel
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: LOR KB AM. Data curation: LOR KB AMVdA IC LDZ MD FP AM. Formal analysis: DS KV. Funding acquisition: AM LL FP KB. Investigation: LOR KB FP AM IC. Methodology: LOR KB FP AM AMVdA. Project administration: LOR. Resources: KB GV LdZ AMVdA FH FP AM MD. Software: DS KV. Supervision: LOR AM. Validation: LOR DS KV AM AMVdA. Visualization: LOR. Writing – original draft: LOR. Writing – review & editing: LOR KB AMVdA IC LdZ GV KV DS LL FH MD FP AM.