About the Authors
- Mats Gunnar Andersson
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mats Gunnar Andersson, Céline Faverjon
* E-mail: gunnar.andersson@sva.se
Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Environment and Feed Hygiene, The National Veterinary Institute, Uppsala, Sweden
- Céline Faverjon
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mats Gunnar Andersson, Céline Faverjon
Affiliation INRA UR346 Animal Epidemiology, VetagroSup, Marcy L'Etoile, France
- Flavie Vial
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Affiliation Veterinary Public Health Institute, DCR-VPH, Vetsuisse Fakultät, Bern, Switzerland
- Loïc Legrand
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Affiliations LABÉO - Frank Duncombe, Unité Risques Microbiens (U2RM), EA 4655, Normandie Universite, Caen, Normandy, France, Réseau d'EpidémioSurveillance en Pathologie Equine (RESPE), Caen, France
- Agnès Leblond
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Affiliations Réseau d'EpidémioSurveillance en Pathologie Equine (RESPE), Caen, France, INRA UR346 Animal Epidemiology et Département Hippique, VetAgroSup, Marcy L'Etoile, France
Competing Interests
LL is an employee of LABÉO. LABÉO was funded by the Conseils Généraux du Calvados, de la Manche et de l'Orne (County Councils). There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MGA. Analyzed the data: MGA CF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AL LL. Wrote the paper: MGA CF FV AL. Organized baseline data collection: AL LL. Critical revision of manuscript: LL.