About the Authors

Maura De Simone

Contributed equally to this work with: Maura De Simone, Lorenza Spagnuolo

These authors are shared first authors on this work.

Affiliation Infection and Cystic Fibrosis Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Lorenza Spagnuolo

Contributed equally to this work with: Maura De Simone, Lorenza Spagnuolo

These authors are shared first authors on this work.

Affiliation Infection and Cystic Fibrosis Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Nicola Ivan Lorè

Affiliation Infection and Cystic Fibrosis Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Giacomo Rossi

Affiliation School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy

Cristina Cigana

Affiliation Infection and Cystic Fibrosis Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Ida De Fino

Affiliation Infection and Cystic Fibrosis Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Fuad A. Iraqi

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Alessandra Bragonzi

bragonzi.alessandra@hsr.it

Affiliation Infection and Cystic Fibrosis Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDS LS NIL CC FAI AB. Performed the experiments: MDS LS NIL GR IDF. Analyzed the data: MDS LS NIL GR CC IDF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MDS LS NIL GR CC IDF FAI AB. Wrote the paper: MDS LS AB. Obtained permission for animal models: AB.