Lopes, Ricardo
Lima de Carvalho, Hugo
Garcês, Andreia
Fernandes, Cátia
Lopes, Ana Patrícia
Martins, Ângela
Duarte, Elsa Leclerc
Cardoso, Luís
Coelho, Ana Cláudia
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (UI/00772)
Article History
Received: 1 April 2025
Accepted: 20 May 2025
First Online: 23 June 2025
Declarations
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: All clinical procedures complied with the Portuguese legislation for the protection of animals used for scientific purposes (i.e. Decree Law no. 113/2013, 7 August 2013), which transposes European legislation (i.e. Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, 22 September 2010). This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of CEDIVET Veterinary Laboratories, which ensured that all the analysed samples from veterinary medical centres were used anonymously in the scientific research related to this project.
: Not applicable.
: L.C. is a guest editor for the 19th Symposium on Companion Vector-Borne Diseases (CVBD) collection and was not involved in the peer review of this manuscript. R.L. and H.L.d.C. are employed by the company CEDIVET Veterinary Laboratories. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as potential conflicts of interest.