About the Authors

Michele Angelo Di Bari

michele.dibari@iss.it

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Romolo Nonno

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Joaquín Castilla

Affiliation CIC bioGUNE and IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Derio and Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain

Claudia D'Agostino

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Laura Pirisinu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Geraldina Riccardi

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Michela Conte

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Juergen Richt

Current address: Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Affiliation National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Robert Kunkle

Affiliation National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Jan Langeveld

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Central Veterinary Institute of Wageningen UR, Lelystad, Netherlands

Gabriele Vaccari

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Umberto Agrimi

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MADB RN UA. Performed the experiments: MADB RN JC CD LP GR MC GV. Analyzed the data: MADB RN GV UA JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC JR JL RK. Wrote the paper: MADB RN UA.