About the Authors

Anna Alba

aalbacas@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States of America

Robert E. Morrison

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States of America

Ann Cheeran

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States of America

Albert Rovira

Affiliation Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States of America

Julio Alvarez

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States of America

Andres M. Perez

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AA REM. Data curation: AA. Formal analysis: AA. Funding acquisition: AMP. Investigation: AA. Methodology: AA. Project administration: AMP. Resources: AA. Software: AA AC. Supervision: AMP REM. Validation: AA AMP JA REM AR. Visualization: AA. Writing – original draft: AA REM AMP JA AR. Writing – review & editing: AA REM AMP JA AR.