About the Authors

Simone Lanini

simone.lanini@inmi.it

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research, National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy

Alessandro Nanni Costa

Affiliation Italian National Transplant Center, Italian National Institute of Health (ISS), Rome, Italy

Vincenzo Puro

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research, National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy

Francesco Procaccio

Affiliation Italian National Transplant Center, Italian National Institute of Health (ISS), Rome, Italy

Paolo Antonio Grossi

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Surgical and Morphological Sciences, University of Insubria-Ospedale di Circolo, Varese, Italy

Francesca Vespasiano

Affiliation Italian National Transplant Center, Italian National Institute of Health (ISS), Rome, Italy

Andrea Ricci

Affiliation Italian National Transplant Center, Italian National Institute of Health (ISS), Rome, Italy

Sergio Vesconi

Affiliation Direzione Generale Salute Lombardia, Regione Lombardia, Milan, Italy

Michael G. Ison

Affiliation Divisions of Infectious Diseases & Organ Transplantation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yehuda Carmeli

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and the Laboratory for Molecular Epidemiology and Antibiotic Research, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Giuseppe Ippolito

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research, National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy

Donor-Recipient Infection (DRIn) Collaborative Study Group

Members of Donor-Recipient Infection DRIn Collaborative Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

Yehuda Carmeli, received grants, honoraria, travel support, consulting fees, and other forms of financial support. Paolo Antonio Grossi received grants, honoraria, travel support, consulting fees, and other forms of financial support from Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Janssen-Cilag, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche.Michel G Ison: received research support from Anolinx, Cellex, Chimerix, Crucell, GlaxoSmithKlein, NexBio and ViroPharma; provided paid consultation to Alios, Abbott, Crucell and Genentech/Roche; provided unpaid consultation to Adamas, BioCryst, Biota, Cellex, Clarassance, GlaxoSmithKlein, GenMarkDx, Romark, Toyama/MediVector, NexBio, Theraclone, Vertex and Visterra; participated to data and safety monitoring board for Biota and NexBio. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests. 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: SL FP GI VP ANC AR FV PAG SV. Analyzed the data: SL FP GI MGI PAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR SV FV FP ANC. Wrote the paper: SL MGI YC GI.