About the Authors
- Emanuela Foglia
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Affiliation CREMS (Centre for Research on Health Economics, Social and Health Care Management), University Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC, Castellanza, Varese, Italy
- Paolo Bonfanti
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Affiliation Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, A. Manzoni Hospital, Lecco, Italy
- Giuliano Rizzardini
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Affiliation First and Second Departments of Infectious Diseases, L. Sacco Hospital Authority, Milan, Italy
- Erminio Bonizzoni
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Affiliation Department of Occupational Health Clinica L. Devoto Labour, Section of Medical Statistics and Biometry G.A. Maccacaro, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- Umberto Restelli
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* E-mail: urestelli@liuc.it
Affiliations CREMS (Centre for Research on Health Economics, Social and Health Care Management), University Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC, Castellanza, Varese, Italy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Elena Ricci
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Affiliation First and Second Departments of Infectious Diseases, L. Sacco Hospital Authority, Milan, Italy
- Emanuele Porazzi
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Affiliation CREMS (Centre for Research on Health Economics, Social and Health Care Management), University Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC, Castellanza, Varese, Italy
- Francesca Scolari
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Affiliation CREMS (Centre for Research on Health Economics, Social and Health Care Management), University Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC, Castellanza, Varese, Italy
- Davide Croce
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Affiliations CREMS (Centre for Research on Health Economics, Social and Health Care Management), University Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC, Castellanza, Varese, Italy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Competing Interests
An unconditional grant was received by Abbott Italy, to cover the costs for the reprocessing of data. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Critical revision of the article: GR FS DC. Conceived and designed the experiments: EF PB GR EB ER EP DC. Performed the experiments: EF EB UR FS. Analyzed the data: EF PB GR UR ER EP FS DC. Wrote the paper: EF PB EB UR ER EP.