About the Authors

Francesca Carlini

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca Carlini, Barbara Ridolfi

Affiliation Department of Therapeutic Research and Drug Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Barbara Ridolfi

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca Carlini, Barbara Ridolfi

Affiliation Department of Therapeutic Research and Drug Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Agnese Molinari

Affiliation Department of Technology and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Chiara Parisi

Affiliation Department of Therapeutic Research and Drug Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Giuseppina Bozzuto

Affiliation Department of Technology and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Laura Toccacieli

Affiliation Department of Technology and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Giuseppe Formisano

Affiliation Department of Technology and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Daniela De Orsi

Affiliation Department of Therapeutic Research and Drug Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Silvia Paradisi

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

OlÌ Maria Victoria Grober

Affiliation Department of General Pathology, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Maria Ravo

Affiliation Department of General Pathology, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Alessandro Weisz

Affiliations Department of General Pathology, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy, Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

Romano Arcieri

Affiliation Department of Therapeutic Research and Drug Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Stefano Vella

Affiliation Department of Therapeutic Research and Drug Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Simona Gaudi

simona.gaudi@iss.it

Affiliation Department of Therapeutic Research and Drug Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG. Performed the experiments: FC BR CP GB LT GF DDO SP OMVG MR. Analyzed the data: FC BR AM AW. Wrote the paper: FC BR SG. Final approval of the version to be published: RA SV.