About the Authors

Maria V. Chiantore

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Serena Vannucchi

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Rosita Accardi

Affiliation Infections and Cancer Biology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer-WHO, Lyon, France

Massimo Tommasino

Affiliation Infections and Cancer Biology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer-WHO, Lyon, France

Zulema A. Percario

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rome 3, Rome, Italy

Gabriele Vaccari

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Elisabetta Affabris

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rome 3, Rome, Italy

Gianna Fiorucci

Affiliations Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy, Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, CNR, Rome, Italy

Giovanna Romeo

giovanna.romeo@uniroma1.it

Affiliations Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy, Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MVC GF GR. Performed the experiments: MVC SV ZAP RA. Analyzed the data: MVC SV ZAP GV EA GF GR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RA MT. Wrote the paper: MVC GF GR.