About the Authors

Marco Tecilla

Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Tecilla, Matteo Gambini

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diagnostic Pathology Service, Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria (DIMEVET), Università degli Studi di Milano, Lodi, Italy

Matteo Gambini

Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Tecilla, Matteo Gambini

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

matteo.gambini@unimi.it

Affiliation Diagnostic Pathology Service, Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria (DIMEVET), Università degli Studi di Milano, Lodi, Italy

Annalisa Forlani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: IDEXX Laboratories, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Affiliation Diagnostic Pathology Service, Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria (DIMEVET), Università degli Studi di Milano, Lodi, Italy

Mario Caniatti

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diagnostic Pathology Service, Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria (DIMEVET), Università degli Studi di Milano, Lodi, Italy

Gabriele Ghisleni

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diagnostic Pathology Service, Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria (DIMEVET), Università degli Studi di Milano, Lodi, Italy

Paola Roccabianca

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diagnostic Pathology Service, Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria (DIMEVET), Università degli Studi di Milano, Lodi, Italy

Competing Interests

One of the authors [A.F.] is currently employed by IDEXX Laboratories (Wetherby, West Yorkshire, UK) which did not provide support in the form of salary for any of the authors at the time by which the study was conducted, neither had any additional role in the study design, research material supply, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.