About the Authors

Serena Schippa

Contributed equally to this work with: Serena Schippa, Valerio Iebba, Maria Pia Conte, Serena Quattrucci

Affiliation Public Health and Infectious Diseases Department, Microbiology Unit, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Valerio Iebba

Contributed equally to this work with: Serena Schippa, Valerio Iebba, Maria Pia Conte, Serena Quattrucci

valerio.iebba@uniroma1.it

Affiliation Public Health and Infectious Diseases Department, Microbiology Unit, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Floriana Santangelo

Affiliation Public Health and Infectious Diseases Department, Microbiology Unit, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Antonella Gagliardi

Affiliation Public Health and Infectious Diseases Department, Microbiology Unit, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Riccardo Valerio De Biase

Affiliation Regional Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Paediatrics and Infant Neuropsychiatry Department, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Antonella Stamato

Affiliation Regional Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Paediatrics and Infant Neuropsychiatry Department, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Serenella Bertasi

Affiliation Regional Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Paediatrics and Infant Neuropsychiatry Department, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Marco Lucarelli

Affiliation Department of Haematology and Cellular Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Maria Pia Conte

Contributed equally to this work with: Serena Schippa, Valerio Iebba, Maria Pia Conte, Serena Quattrucci

Affiliation Public Health and Infectious Diseases Department, Microbiology Unit, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Serena Quattrucci

Contributed equally to this work with: Serena Schippa, Valerio Iebba, Maria Pia Conte, Serena Quattrucci

Affiliation Regional Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Paediatrics and Infant Neuropsychiatry Department, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VI SS. Performed the experiments: VI FS AG. Analyzed the data: VI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RDB AS SB ML MPC SQ. Wrote the paper: VI SS.