Acknowledgments
This research was funded by the Italian Ministry of Health, grant number
IZS ME 05/19 RC, 2016-2019.
Authors thank Viet Linh Nguyen (Department of Veterinary Medicine,
University of Bari, 70010, Valenzano, Italy) for some supporting some
laboratory activities and Paolo Varuzza (Department of Veterinary
Medicine and Animal Production, University of Naples, 80137, Naples,
Italy) for the technical assistance with ArcGIS software.
The authors are grateful to all veterinarians involved in the project
for the kind collaboration in carcasses inspection and sample
collection: Antonio Apuzzo, Domenico Benedetto, Francesco Celano, Luca
De Blasio, Lucio De Maria, Francesco Di Domenico, Vittorio Di Matteo,
Simone Iovino, Piero Matonte, Giuseppe Mollo, Antonio Parisi, Simone
Palmieri, Boris Pietraggi, Domenico Rufrano, Pasquale Russo, Valerio
Toscano, Andrea Santillo, Giampiero Sepe, Pasquale Silvestri and Alessio
Vitale.