Pena-Fernández, Nerea
Kortabarria, Nekane
Hurtado, Ana
Ocejo, Medelin
Fort, Marcelo
Pérez-Cobo, Iratxe
Collantes-Fernández, Esther
Aduriz, Gorka
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Pre2018-086113 funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by “ESF Investing in your future”, (RTA2017 -00076-00-00 funded by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 and by FEDER “A way to do Europe”, (RTA2017 -00076-00-00 funded by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 and by FEDER “A way to do Europe”)
Dirección General de Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica, Comunidad de Madrid (PLATESA2-CM P2018/BAA-4370)
Article History
Received: 19 October 2023
Accepted: 7 March 2024
First Online: 2 April 2024
Declarations
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: Informed oral consent was obtained from owners at the time of sample collection. The smegma samples were collected by preputial scraping of bulls in the field, following the WOAH recommended sampling method by certified veterinary practitioners as a part of normal veterinary care and diagnostic investigations. Therefore, ethical approval by an ethics committee was not necessary, as established in the Spanish RD 53/2013 of 1 February, article 2, Sect. 5, which establishes the basic rules applicable to the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes, including teaching, and the practices excluded from its scope of application.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.