About the Authors

Sara Corsetti

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biology and Biotechnology Department, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Simona Borruso

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Biology and Biotechnology Department, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Mario Di Traglia

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Public Health and Infectious Diseases, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Olga Lai

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Experimental Zoo-prophylactic Institute Latium and Tuscany, Rome, Italy

Lavinia Alfieri

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Experimental Zoo-prophylactic Institute Latium and Tuscany, Rome, Italy

Agnese Villavecchia

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Canine consultant, free-lance, Rome, Italy

Giuseppe Cariola

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Interzonal Dog Shelter, Local Health Unit Rome 3, Rome, Italy

Alessandra Spaziani

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Interzonal Dog Shelter, Local Health Unit Rome 3, Rome, Italy

Eugenia Natoli

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

enatoli@tiscali.it

Affiliation Interzonal Dog Shelter, Local Health Unit Rome 3, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.