About the Authors

Khaled Ghareeb

Contributed equally to this work with: Khaled Ghareeb, Wageha A. Awad

Khaled.Ghareeb@vetmeduni.ac.at

Affiliations Department for Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, Institute of Animal Nutrition and Functional Plant Compounds, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria, Department of Animal Hygiene, Behaviour and Management, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

Wageha A. Awad

Contributed equally to this work with: Khaled Ghareeb, Wageha A. Awad

Affiliation Clinic for Avian, Reptile and Fish Medicine, Department for Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Chimidtseren Soodoi

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Physiology, Pathophysiology and Biophysics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Soleman Sasgary

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Physiology, Pathophysiology and Biophysics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Alois Strasser

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Physiology, Pathophysiology and Biophysics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Josef Böhm

Affiliation Department for Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, Institute of Animal Nutrition and Functional Plant Compounds, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

This work received the financial support from Biomin GTI GmbH, Herzogenburg, Austria. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KG WA JB. Performed the experiments: KG WA SS CS. Analyzed the data: KG WA AS SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KG WA CS SS AS JB. Wrote the paper: KG WA JB.