About the Authors

Aurora García-Fernández

aurora.garciafernandez@iss.it

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Silvia Gallina

Affiliation Regional Reference Centre for Salmonella serotyping, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d'Aosta, Turin, Italy

Slawomir Owczarek

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Anna Maria Dionisi

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Ildo Benedetti

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Lucia Decastelli

Affiliation Food Hygiene and Safety Department, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d'Aosta, Turin, Italy

Ida Luzzi

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AGF IL. Performed the experiments: AGF SO IB AMD. Analyzed the data: AGF AMD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IL AMD. Wrote the paper: AGF AD IL. Strains collection: SG LD.