About the Authors

Nicola Ivan Lorè

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicola Ivan Lorè, Cristina Cigana

Affiliation Infection and Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Cristina Cigana

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicola Ivan Lorè, Cristina Cigana

Affiliation Infection and Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Ida De Fino

Affiliation Infection and Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Camilla Riva

Affiliation Infection and Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Mario Juhas

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Stephan Schwager

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Leo Eberl

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Alessandra Bragonzi

bragonzi.alessandra@hsr.it

Affiliation Infection and Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NIL CC LE AB. Performed the experiments: NIL CC IDF CR MJ SS. Analyzed the data: NIL CC MJ SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LE AB. Wrote the paper: NIL CC LE AB.