About the Authors

L. Savini

l.savini@izs.it

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e Molise, National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Brucellosis, OIE Collaborating Centre for Veterinary Training, Epidemiology, Food Safety and Animal Welfare, Via Campo Boario, Teramo, Italy

L. Candeloro

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e Molise, National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Brucellosis, OIE Collaborating Centre for Veterinary Training, Epidemiology, Food Safety and Animal Welfare, Via Campo Boario, Teramo, Italy

A. Conte

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e Molise, National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Brucellosis, OIE Collaborating Centre for Veterinary Training, Epidemiology, Food Safety and Animal Welfare, Via Campo Boario, Teramo, Italy

F. De Massis

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e Molise, National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Brucellosis, OIE Collaborating Centre for Veterinary Training, Epidemiology, Food Safety and Animal Welfare, Via Campo Boario, Teramo, Italy

A. Giovannini

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e Molise, National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Brucellosis, OIE Collaborating Centre for Veterinary Training, Epidemiology, Food Safety and Animal Welfare, Via Campo Boario, Teramo, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LS LC AC AG. Data curation: LS LC AC FDM AG. Formal analysis: LS LC AC AG. Funding acquisition: LS LC AC. Investigation: LS LC AC. Methodology: LS LC AC AG. Project administration: LS LC AC AG. Resources: LS LC AC. Software: LS LC AC. Supervision: LS LC AC. Validation: LS LC AC FDM AG. Visualization: LS LC AC FDM AG. Writing – original draft: LS LC AC FDM AG. Writing – review & editing: LS LC AC AG.