About the Authors

Martin J. Schmidt

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Martin.J.Schmidt@vetmed.uni-giessen.de

Affiliations Faculty of Veterinary Science, Department of Companion Animal Clinical Studies, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Small Animal Clinic, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

Gerhard Steenkamp

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Science, Department of Companion Animal Clinical Studies, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Peter Caldwell

Roles Resources, Validation

Affiliation Old Chapel Veterinary Clinic, Pretoria, South Africa

Klaus Failing

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Unit for Biomathematics and Data Processing, Justus Liebig-University-Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Robert M. Kirberger

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Science, Department of Companion Animal Clinical Studies, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.