About the Authors

Kirsten Leurs

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

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Livestock Gut Health Team (LiGHT) Ghent, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Evy Goossens

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

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Livestock Gut Health Team (LiGHT) Ghent, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Henrik Christensen

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

Jacques G. Mainil

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Bacteriology Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Centre for Fundamental and Applied Research in Animals and Health (FARAH), University of Liège (ULiège), Liège, Belgium

Dieter Vancraeynest

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Zoetis, Parsippany, New Jersey, United States of America

Richard Ducatelle

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Livestock Gut Health Team (LiGHT) Ghent, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Filip Van Immerseel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Filip.vanimmerseel@ugent.be

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Livestock Gut Health Team (LiGHT) Ghent, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Competing Interests

This work was supported by a research grant from Zoetis. This funder provided support in the form of salaries for authors K.L. and D.V. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.