About the Authors

Jacopo Cerri

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacopo Cerri, Carmela Musto

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jacopocerri@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Carmela Musto

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacopo Cerri, Carmela Musto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Federico M. Stefanini

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

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano “La Statale”, Milano, Italy

Umberto di Nicola

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park, L’Aquila, Italy

Nicoletta Riganelli

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park, L’Aquila, Italy

Maria C. Fontana

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna Bruno Ubertino, Brescia, Italy

Arianna Rossi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna Bruno Ubertino, Brescia, Italy

Chiara Garbarino

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna Bruno Ubertino, Brescia, Italy

Giuseppe Merialdi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna Bruno Ubertino, Brescia, Italy

Francesca Ciuti

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Canislupus Italia, Firenze, Italy

Duccio Berzi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Canislupus Italia, Firenze, Italy

Mauro Delogu

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Marco Apollonio

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

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing interest, regarding the study.