About the Authors
- Matteo Surdo
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Contributed equally to this work with: Matteo Surdo, Emanuela Balestra
Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- Emanuela Balestra
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Contributed equally to this work with: Matteo Surdo, Emanuela Balestra
Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- Patrizia Saccomandi
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Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- Fabiola Di Santo
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Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- Marco Montano
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Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, Tor Vergata University (PTV), Rome, Italy
- Domenico Di Carlo
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Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- Loredana Sarmati
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Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, Tor Vergata University (PTV), Rome, Italy
- Stefano Aquaro
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Affiliation Department of Pharmaco-Biology, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy, 4INMI “L. Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy
- Massimo Andreoni
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Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, Tor Vergata University (PTV), Rome, Italy
- Valentina Svicher
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Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- Carlo Federico Perno
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* E-mail: Cf.perno@uniroma2.it
Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- Francesca Ceccherini-Silberstein
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Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Competing Interests
CF Perno have received funds for attending symposia, speaking, organizing educational activities, grant research support, consultancy and advisory board membership, from Abbott, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Gilead, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Janssen Cilag, Pfizer, Tibotec, Roche, and ViiV. F Ceccherini-Silberstein has received funds for attending symposia, speaking and organizing educational activities from Abbott, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Janssen Cilag, and ViiV. V Svicher has received funds for attending symposia, speaking and organizing educational activities from ViiV. The other authors declare that no competing interests exist. 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: MS EB CFP. Performed the experiments: MS EB PS FDS MM. Analyzed the data: MS EB DDC SA VS CFP FCS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LS MA. Wrote the paper: MS EB SA VS CFP FCS. Statistical Analysis: MS DDC.