About the Authors

Elena Biagi

elena.biagi@unibo.it

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Lotta Nylund

Affiliations Functional Foods Forum, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Division of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Department of Basic Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Marco Candela

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Rita Ostan

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pathology and CIG-Interdepartmental Center L. Galvani, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Laura Bucci

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pathology and CIG-Interdepartmental Center L. Galvani, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Elisa Pini

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pathology and CIG-Interdepartmental Center L. Galvani, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Janne Nikkïla

Affiliation Division of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Department of Basic Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Daniela Monti

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pathology and Oncology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Reetta Satokari

Affiliation Functional Foods Forum, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Claudio Franceschi

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pathology and CIG-Interdepartmental Center L. Galvani, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Patrizia Brigidi

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Willem De Vos

Affiliations Division of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Department of Basic Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CF PB WdV. Performed the experiments: EB LN RO LB. Analyzed the data: EB JN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM RS WDV. Wrote the paper: EB MC RS WDV. Performed samples collection: RO LB EP.