About the Authors

Aimara Bello

Contributed equally to this work with: Aimara Bello, Samuel Frei

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Samuel Frei

Contributed equally to this work with: Aimara Bello, Samuel Frei

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany, Zoo Wuppertal, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Martin Peters

Affiliation Chemisches und Veterinäruntersuchungsamt Westfalen, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Anne Balkema-Buschmann

Affiliation Institute of Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald, Insel Riems, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany

Wolfgang Baumgärtner

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Peter Wohlsein

peter.wohlsein@tiho-hannover.de

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AB WB PW. Funding acquisition: AB PW WB. Investigation: AB SF MP ABB PW. Methodology: WB PW. Resources: ABB MP. Supervision: WB PW. Visualization: SF PW. Writing – original draft: AB SF MP ABB WB PW. Writing – review & editing: SF WB PW.