About the Authors
- Galliano Zanello
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Affiliations Société Industrielle Lesaffre, Lesaffre Feed Additives, Marcq-en-Baroeul, France, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), UR1282, Infectiologie Animale et Santé Publique, Nouzilly (Tours), France
- Mustapha Berri
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Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), UR1282, Infectiologie Animale et Santé Publique, Nouzilly (Tours), France
- Joëlle Dupont
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Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), UMR85, Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly (Tours), France
- Pierre-Yves Sizaret
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Affiliation Département des microscopies, plate-forme R.I.O de microscopie électronique, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France
- Romain D'Inca
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Affiliation Société Industrielle Lesaffre, Lesaffre Feed Additives, Marcq-en-Baroeul, France
- Henri Salmon
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Contributed equally to this work with: Henri Salmon, François Meurens
Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), UR1282, Infectiologie Animale et Santé Publique, Nouzilly (Tours), France
- François Meurens
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Contributed equally to this work with: Henri Salmon, François Meurens
* E-mail: meurens@tours.inra.fr
Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), UR1282, Infectiologie Animale et Santé Publique, Nouzilly (Tours), France
Competing Interests
GZ and RDI are employees of Lesaffre. Lesaffre has a patent application related to strain CNCM I-3856, which is a commercial strain. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GZ FM HS. Performed the experiments: GZ JD P-YS. Analyzed the data: GZ FM JD HS P-YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS FM JD P-YS RDI. Wrote the paper: GZ HS MB FM.