About the Authors

Iniobong Chukwuebuka I. Ugochukwu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Valenzano, Bari, Italy, Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nsukka, Nigeria

Jairo Alfonso Mendoza-Roldan

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Valenzano, Bari, Italy

Mara Miglianti

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Valenzano, Bari, Italy

Natalizia Palazzo

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Valenzano, Bari, Italy

Amienwanlen Eugene Odigie

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Valenzano, Bari, Italy

Domenico Otranto

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Valenzano, Bari, Italy, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China

Claudia Cafarchia

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

claudia.cafarchia@uniba.it

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Valenzano, Bari, Italy

Competing Interests

The Authors declare that there are no competing interests.