About the Authors

Elena Blázquez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

elenablazquezsalvador@gmail.com

Affiliations IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA-IRTA), Barcelona, Spain, APC EUROPE S.L.U., Granollers, Barcelona, Spain, OIE Collaborating Centre for the Research and Control of Emerging and Re-emerging Swine Diseases in Europe (IRTA-CReSA), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

Joan Pujols

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA-IRTA), Barcelona, Spain, OIE Collaborating Centre for the Research and Control of Emerging and Re-emerging Swine Diseases in Europe (IRTA-CReSA), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

Joaquim Segalés

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations OIE Collaborating Centre for the Research and Control of Emerging and Re-emerging Swine Diseases in Europe (IRTA-CReSA), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain, Departament de Sanitat i Anatomia Animals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, UAB, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Fernando Rodríguez

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA-IRTA), Barcelona, Spain, OIE Collaborating Centre for the Research and Control of Emerging and Re-emerging Swine Diseases in Europe (IRTA-CReSA), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

Joe Crenshaw

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation APC LLC, Ankeny, Iowa, United States of America

Carmen Rodríguez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation APC EUROPE S.L.U., Granollers, Barcelona, Spain

Jesús Ródenas

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation APC EUROPE S.L.U., Granollers, Barcelona, Spain

Javier Polo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations APC EUROPE S.L.U., Granollers, Barcelona, Spain, APC LLC, Ankeny, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: EB, CR, JR and J.Polo are employed by APC Europe, S.L.U. Granollers, Spain. J. Polo and JC are employed by APC LLC, Ankeny, IA. Both companies manufacture and sells spray-dried animal plasma, however, the companies did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. J. Pujols, FR and JS declare no conflict of interest. This does not alter the autors’s adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.