About the Authors
- Roberto Rosini
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Srl, Siena, Italy
- Edmondo Campisi
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Srl, Siena, Italy
- Matteo De Chiara
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Srl, Siena, Italy
- Hervé Tettelin
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Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Daniela Rinaudo
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Srl, Siena, Italy
- Chiara Toniolo
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Srl, Siena, Italy
- Matteo Metruccio
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Srl, Siena, Italy
- Silvia Guidotti
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Srl, Siena, Italy
- Uffe B. Skov Sørensen
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Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Mogens Kilian
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Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- DEVANI Consortium
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¶Membership of the Devani Consortium is listed in the Acknowledgments.
- Mario Ramirez
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Affiliation Instituto de Microbiologia, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
- Robert Janulczyk
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Srl, Siena, Italy
- Claudio Donati
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Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Via E. Mach 1, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
- Guido Grandi
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Srl, Siena, Italy
- Immaculada Margarit
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* E-mail: immaculada.margarit_y_ros@novartis.com
Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Srl, Siena, Italy
Competing Interests
RR DR SG RJ GG IM are Novartis Vaccines employees. IM and GG hold Novartis stock options. The authors confirm that the Novartis Vaccines funder provided support in the form of salaries for authors RR DR SG RJ GG IM. This does not alter the adherence of all authors to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RR IM GG. Performed the experiments: RR EC HT DR CT MM SG. Analyzed the data: RR EC MD RJ CD IM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: US MK MR. Wrote the paper: IM RR.