Angelou, Athanasios
Gelasakis, Athanasios I.
Verde, Natalia
Pantchev, Nikola
Schaper, Roland
Chandrashekar, Ramaswamy
Papadopoulos, Elias
Article History
Received: 22 January 2019
Accepted: 29 May 2019
First Online: 3 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was conducted in compliance with the national animal welfare regulations. The applied diagnostic veterinary procedures are not within the context of relevant EU legislation for animal experimentations (Directive 86/609/EC) and may be performed in order to diagnose animal diseases and improve animal welfare. No suffering was caused during sample collection. Consent was given by owners or registered veterinarians (private, public or municipality, depending on the case). Owners consent was obtained prior to collection of samples according to standard procedures adopted by the involved clinics.
: Not applicable.
: RS is employed by Bayer but the survey was purely epidemiological without any product use. RC and NP are employed by IDEXX but were not involved in the diagnostic procedure. AA, AIG, NV and EP declare that they have no competing interests.