About the Authors

Stefanie Bassis

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Current address: Clinical Unit of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Intensive-Care Medicine, Emergency Clinic Small Animals, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Pathogenesis at ‘Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut’ (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health), Jena, Germany

Sina Fischer

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Current address: Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Office (CVUA) Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Pathogenesis at ‘Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut’ (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health), Jena, Germany

Heike Köhler

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Pathogenesis at ‘Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut’ (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health), Jena, Germany, National Reference Laboratory for Paratuberculosis, Jena, Germany

Petra Reinhold

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

petra.reinhold@fli.de

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Pathogenesis at ‘Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut’ (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health), Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.