About the Authors

Nieves Ayllón

Affiliation SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC, CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ronda de Toledo s/n, 13005, Ciudad Real, Spain

Victoria Naranjo

Affiliations SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC, CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ronda de Toledo s/n, 13005, Ciudad Real, Spain, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Ondrej Hajdušek

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branišovská 31, 37005, České Budějovice, The Czech Republic

Margarita Villar

Affiliation SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC, CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ronda de Toledo s/n, 13005, Ciudad Real, Spain

Ruth C. Galindo

Current Address: Biocommunication Research Institute, Riordan Clinic, Wichita, Kansas, 67219, United States of America

Affiliations SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC, CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ronda de Toledo s/n, 13005, Ciudad Real, Spain, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Katherine M. Kocan

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Pilar Alberdi

Affiliation SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC, CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ronda de Toledo s/n, 13005, Ciudad Real, Spain

Radek Šíma

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branišovská 31, 37005, České Budějovice, The Czech Republic

Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz

Affiliations SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC, CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ronda de Toledo s/n, 13005, Ciudad Real, Spain, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille (CIIL), INSERM U1019 –CNRS UMR 8204, Université Lille Nord de France, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France

Claudia Rückert

Affiliation The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, GU24 0NF, United Kingdom

Lesley Bell-Sakyi

Affiliation The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, GU24 0NF, United Kingdom

Mária Kazimírová

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84506, Bratislava, Slovakia

Sabína Havlíková

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84505, Bratislava, Slovakia

Boris Klempa

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84505, Bratislava, Slovakia

Petr Kopáček

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branišovská 31, 37005, České Budějovice, The Czech Republic

José de la Fuente

jose_delafuente@yahoo.com

Affiliations SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC, CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ronda de Toledo s/n, 13005, Ciudad Real, Spain, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JdlF OH PK BK. Performed the experiments: NA VN MV RCG KMK PA RS ACC CR LBS MK SH. Analyzed the data: NA VN OH MV RCG KMK RS ACC CR MK BK JdlF. Wrote the paper: NA OH MV KMK CR LBS BK JdlF.