About the Authors

Adriana Criste

Contributed equally to this work with: Adriana Criste, Adriana Cristina Urcan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

adriana.criste@usamvcluj.ro (AC); adriana.urcan@usamvcluj.ro (ACU)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Animal Science and Biotechnologies, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Lucian Copolovici

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Faculty of Food Engineering, Tourism and Environmental Protection, Research Center in Technical and Natural Sciences, "Aurel Vlaicu" University, Arad, Romania

Dana Copolovici

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Faculty of Food Engineering, Tourism and Environmental Protection, Research Center in Technical and Natural Sciences, "Aurel Vlaicu" University, Arad, Romania

Melinda Kovacs

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation INCDO-INOE 2000, Subsidiary Research Institute for Analytical Instrumentation, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Robert H. Madden

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Veterinary Sciences Division, Bacteriology Branch, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast, United Kingdom

Nicolae Corcionivoschi

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Animal Science and Biotechnologies, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Veterinary Sciences Division, Bacteriology Branch, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast, United Kingdom

Ozan Gundogdu

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Infectious & Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Mihaela Berchez

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Animal Science and Biotechnologies, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Adriana Cristina Urcan

Contributed equally to this work with: Adriana Criste, Adriana Cristina Urcan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

adriana.criste@usamvcluj.ro (AC); adriana.urcan@usamvcluj.ro (ACU)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Animal Science and Biotechnologies, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.