RIPK2 and infection: Among the most altered factors, Caspase 4 and 9 (CASP4, CASP9) resulted upregulated (19.09 and 108.10 fold) at days 4 and 7 p.i., respectively; the same trend was observed for the expression of TNF Superfamily Member 10 (TNFSF10; 6.24 fold) at day 4 p.i.; TNF Receptor Superfamily Member 25 (TNFRSF25) expression was significantly increased at days 0, 7, and 10 p.i. (9.02, 16.48, and 24.29 fold, respectively); Receptor-interacting protein kinase 2 (RIPK2) was upregulated at all infection time points (30.88, 16.79, 6.64, 10.53, and 15.66 fold at 0, 4, 7, 10, and 14 days p.i., respectively).