About the Authors

Maximiliane Kaschny

Affiliation Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Janina Demeler

Affiliation Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

I. Jana I. Janssen

Affiliation Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Tetiana A. Kuzmina

Affiliation Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Bruno Besognet

Affiliation Zoetis, Paris, France

Theo Kanellos

Affiliation Zoetis International Services, Paris, France

Dominique Kerboeuf

Affiliation INRA, ISP, Animal Infection and Public Health, Nouzilly, France

Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna

Affiliation Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Jürgen Krücken

juergen.kruecken@fu-berlin.de

Affiliation Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

BB and TK are employees of Zoetis. Except of BB and TK, Zoetis was not involved in study design, data collection, data analysis or preparation of the manuscript. The decision to publish the manuscript was jointly taken. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK JD BB TK DK GvSH JK. Performed the experiments: MK IJIJ JK TAK. Analyzed the data: JK MK JD IJIJ DK. Wrote the paper: JK MK JD GvSH.