About the Authors

Marco Lalle

Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Lalle, Flora Leptourgidou, Serena Camerini

marco.lalle@iss.it

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Flora Leptourgidou

Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Lalle, Flora Leptourgidou, Serena Camerini

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Centre “Alexander Fleming” Vari, Greece

Serena Camerini

Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Lalle, Flora Leptourgidou, Serena Camerini

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Edoardo Pozio

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Efthimios M. C. Skoulakis

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Centre “Alexander Fleming” Vari, Greece

Competing Interests

Efthimios Skoulakis is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. 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: EMCS ML. Performed the experiments: ML FL SC. Analyzed the data: EMCS ML FL EP SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SC. Wrote the paper: EMCS ML FL.