About the Authors

Cintia R. R. Queiroz-Machado

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current Address: Centro Universitario de Tacuarembó, Universidad de la República, Tacuarembó, Uruguay.

Affiliation Veterinary School, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Mohsen Hanifeh

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Enrico Bottero

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Endovet Group, Roma, Italy

Chi-Hsuan Sung

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Patricia Eri Ishii

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Roberto M. C. Guedes

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

Affiliation Veterinary School, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Raphael R. Wenceslau

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Veterinary School, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Susanne Kilpinen

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Thomas Spillmann

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Jonathan A. Lidbury

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Joerg M. Steiner

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Jan S. Suchodolski

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Paula R. Giaretta

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pgiaretta@cvm.tamu.edu

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

PRG, CHS, JSS, JAL, JMS are affiliated with the Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Texas A&M University, which offers diagnostics for GI disease (including histopathology and fluorescence in situ hybridization) on a fee-for-service basis. JSS is member of the PLOS ONE editorial board. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.