Correction to: BMC Vet Res 14, 209 (2018)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-018-1528-7

The original article [1] published does not declare the full affiliation and competing interests statement for author Dr. Rebecca Ricci.

Affiliations

The full affiliation for Rebecca Ricci should be listed as:

Department of Animal Medicine, Production and Health, Viale Dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, Italy; Vetekipp S.r.l., via della Croce Rossa 112, 35129 Padova, Italy

Competing interests

At the time the paper was published, Dr. Rebecca Ricci was affiliated to Vetekipp S.r.l., an Italian company that commercialize a software to formulate balanced home-made diets for dogs and cats, and vitamin and mineral supplements to balance home-prepared diets for dogs and cats. Dr. Ricci desires to declare her affiliation to Vetekipp S.r.l. for transparency, however it must be stated that being part of Vetekipp did not influence Dr. Ricci’s interpretation of the present study’s data, neither did it bias the presentation of information in the manuscript. Moreover, at the time the study was planned and laboratory analyses were run Vetekipp S.r.l. was not established yet; Vetekipp S.r.l. did not sponsored or funded this research study. All other authors declare no competing interests.