Acknowledgments
This research was funded by the Italian Ministry of Health, grant number IZS ME 05/19 RC, 2016-2019.
Authors thank Viet Linh Nguyen (Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, 70010, Valenzano, Italy) for some supporting some laboratory activities and Paolo Varuzza (Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production, University of Naples, 80137, Naples, Italy) for the technical assistance with ArcGIS software.
The authors are grateful to all veterinarians involved in the project for the kind collaboration in carcasses inspection and sample collection: Antonio Apuzzo, Domenico Benedetto, Francesco Celano, Luca De Blasio, Lucio De Maria, Francesco Di Domenico, Vittorio Di Matteo, Simone Iovino, Piero Matonte, Giuseppe Mollo, Antonio Parisi, Simone Palmieri, Boris Pietraggi, Domenico Rufrano, Pasquale Russo, Valerio Toscano, Andrea Santillo, Giampiero Sepe, Pasquale Silvestri and Alessio Vitale.