About the Authors

Giuliano Garofolo

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

Affiliation National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Brucellosis, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise, Teramo, Italy

Antonio Petrella

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Puglia e della Basilicata, Foggia, Italy

Giuseppe Lucifora

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, Vibo Valentia, Italy

Gabriella Di Francesco

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Brucellosis, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise, Teramo, Italy

Giovanni Di Guardo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy

Alessandra Pautasso

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ASL.1 Imperiese, Imperia, Italia

Barbara Iulini

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation OIE Collaborating Centre Health of Marine Mammals, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Torino, Italy

Katia Varello

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation OIE Collaborating Centre Health of Marine Mammals, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Torino, Italy

Federica Giorda

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations OIE Collaborating Centre Health of Marine Mammals, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Torino, Italy, Institute for Animal Health and Food Safety (IUSA), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

Maria Goria

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation OIE Collaborating Centre Health of Marine Mammals, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Torino, Italy

Alessandro Dondo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation OIE Collaborating Centre Health of Marine Mammals, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Torino, Italy

Simona Zoppi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation OIE Collaborating Centre Health of Marine Mammals, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Torino, Italy

Cristina Esmeralda Di Francesco

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy

Stefania Giglio

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation M.A.R.E. Calabria Association, Montepaone (Catanzaro), Italy

Furio Ferringo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Puglia e della Basilicata, Foggia, Italy

Luigina Serrecchia

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Puglia e della Basilicata, Foggia, Italy

Mattia Anna Rita Ferrantino

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Puglia e della Basilicata, Foggia, Italy

Katiuscia Zilli

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Brucellosis, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise, Teramo, Italy

Anna Janowicz

Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Brucellosis, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise, Teramo, Italy

Manuela Tittarelli

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Brucellosis, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise, Teramo, Italy

Walter Mignone

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation OIE Collaborating Centre Health of Marine Mammals, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Torino, Italy

Cristina Casalone

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation OIE Collaborating Centre Health of Marine Mammals, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Torino, Italy

Carla Grattarola

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

carla.grattarola@izsto.it

Affiliation OIE Collaborating Centre Health of Marine Mammals, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Torino, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.