Nisa, Fakhar Un https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0752-3472
Usman, Muhammad
Ali, Asad
Ali, Muhammad Basil
Kaul, Haiba
Asif, Muhammad
Mrode, Raphael
Mukhtar, Zahid
Article History
Received: 17 January 2025
Accepted: 2 September 2025
First Online: 26 September 2025
Declarations
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: The study was ethically approved, followed ARRIVE and institutional guidelines, involved veterinarian-supervised sampling, and obtained farmers’ verbal consent after explaining the study’s purpose. The research described in this paper received approval from the Research Ethics Committee of the National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad, Pakistan, on June 10, 2020.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.