About the Authors

Alia Parveen

Contributed equally to this work with: Alia Parveen, Sajad A. Bhat, Mahmoud Elnaggar

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

Affiliation UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Sajad A. Bhat

Contributed equally to this work with: Alia Parveen, Sajad A. Bhat, Mahmoud Elnaggar

Roles Methodology, Project administration

Affiliations UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Animal and Bioscience Research Department, Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Grange, Meath, Ireland

Mahmoud Elnaggar

Contributed equally to this work with: Alia Parveen, Sajad A. Bhat, Mahmoud Elnaggar

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Applied and Health Sciences, A’Sharqiyah University, Ibra, Oman, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt

Kieran G. Meade

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kieran.meade@ucd.ie

Affiliations UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, UCD Institute of Food and Health, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.