About the Authors

Cira Daniela Rinaudo

Contributed equally to this work with: Cira Daniela Rinaudo, Roberto Rosini

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy

Roberto Rosini

Contributed equally to this work with: Cira Daniela Rinaudo, Roberto Rosini

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy

Cesira L. Galeotti

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy

Francesco Berti

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy

Francesca Necchi

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy

Valerio Reguzzi

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy

Claudia Ghezzo

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy

John Laird Telford

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy

Guido Grandi

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy

Domenico Maione

domenico.maione@novartis.com

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CDR RR JLT GG DM. Performed the experiments: CDR RR CLG FB FN CG. Analyzed the data: CDR RR VR DM. Wrote the paper: CDR CLG JLT GG DM.