About the Authors
- Jessica Maria Abbate
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
- Carla Maia
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM), Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT), New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
- André Pereira
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM), Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT), New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
- Francesca Arfuso
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Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
- Gabriella Gaglio
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Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
- Maria Rizzo
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Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
- Giulia Caracappa
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Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
- Gabriele Marino
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Roles Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
- Matthias Pollmeier
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Roles Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Bayer Animal Health GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany
- Salvatore Giannetto
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
- Emanuele Brianti
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: ebrianti@unime.it
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The commercial affiliation of MP does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.