About the Authors
- Marta Castagnini
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Siena, Italy
- Monica Picchianti
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Affiliations Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Siena, Italy, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
- Eleonora Talluri
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Siena, Italy
- Massimiliano Biagini
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Siena, Italy
- Mariangela Del Vecchio
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Siena, Italy
- Paolo Di Procolo
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Siena, Italy
- Nathalie Norais
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Siena, Italy
- Vincenzo Nardi-Dei
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Siena, Italy
- Enrico Balducci
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* E-mail: enrico.balducci@unicam.it
Affiliation School of Biosciences and Biotechnologies, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
Competing Interests
Marta Castagnini, Paolo Di Procolo, Monica Picchianti, Massimiliano Biagini, Nathalie Norais, Mariangela Del Vecchio and Vincenzo Nardi-Dei are employed by Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics. In this study LTA was cloned and purified by Drs. Paolo Ruggiero and Laura Pancotto (Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Siena Italy). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: EB MC NN. Performed the experiments: MC PDP MDV VND MB MP ET. Analyzed the data: EB NN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB MDV VND. Wrote the paper: EB.