Institutional review board statement
The study was conducted according to the guidelines of The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) and approved by the ethical committee of the University Hospital Institute Mediterranean Infection (N°: 2021-026). This study was carried out in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Animals edicted by French law (articles R214-87 to R214-137 of the rural code) updated by decree 2013–118 and 5 decrees edited on February 1st 2013. The protocol did not require to be approved by the Committee on the Ethics of Animal Experiments as no invasive study was performed on the dogs participating to the study, in accordance with the recommendations the inspector of Regional Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Forestry of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).