Bold personality makes domestic dogs entering a shelter less vulnerable to diseases

• Sara Corsetti,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biology and Biotechnology Department, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy

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• Simona Borruso,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Biology and Biotechnology Department, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy

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• Mario Di Traglia,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Public Health and Infectious Diseases, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy

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• Olga Lai,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Experimental Zoo-prophylactic Institute Latium and Tuscany, Rome, Italy

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• Lavinia Alfieri,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Experimental Zoo-prophylactic Institute Latium and Tuscany, Rome, Italy

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• Agnese Villavecchia,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Canine consultant, free-lance, Rome, Italy

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• Giuseppe Cariola,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Interzonal Dog Shelter, Local Health Unit Rome 3, Rome, Italy

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• Alessandra Spaziani,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Interzonal Dog Shelter, Local Health Unit Rome 3, Rome, Italy

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• Eugenia Natoli

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: enatoli@tiscali.it

  Affiliation Interzonal Dog Shelter, Local Health Unit Rome 3, Rome, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9232-7048

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