About the Authors

Jessica Maria Abbate

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Carla Maia

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

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

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Gabriella Gaglio

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Maria Rizzo

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Giulia Caracappa

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Gabriele Marino

Roles Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Matthias Pollmeier

Roles Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bayer Animal Health GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany

Salvatore Giannetto

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Emanuele Brianti

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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.