About the Authors

João C. Alves

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

alves.jca@gnr.pt

Affiliations Divisão de Medicina Veterinária, Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR), Lisbon, Portugal, MED – Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra, Évora, Portugal

Ana Santos

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Divisão de Medicina Veterinária, Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR), Lisbon, Portugal

Patrícia Jorge

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Divisão de Medicina Veterinária, Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR), Lisbon, Portugal

Catarina Lavrador

Contributed equally to this work with: Catarina Lavrador, L. Miguel Carreira

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MED – Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra, Évora, Portugal

L. Miguel Carreira

Contributed equally to this work with: Catarina Lavrador, L. Miguel Carreira

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon (FMV/ULisboa), Lisbon, Portugal, Interdisciplinary Centre for Research in Animal Health (CIISA) – University of Lisbon, (FMV/ULisboa), Lisbon, Portugal, Anjos of Assis Veterinary Medicine Centre (CMVAA), Barreiro, Portugal

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: The CRP tests were provided by FujiFilm Europe GmbH. The Stance Analyser used in this study was provided by Companion, LiteCure LLC. The digital thermography camera was provided by Specman, Lda. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.