About the Authors

Marco Di Luca

marco.diluca@iss.it

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161, Rome, Italy

Luciano Toma

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161, Rome, Italy

Daniela Boccolini

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161, Rome, Italy

Francesco Severini

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161, Rome, Italy

Giuseppe La Rosa

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161, Rome, Italy

Giada Minelli

Affiliation National Centre for Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161, Rome, Italy

Gioia Bongiorno

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161, Rome, Italy

Fabrizio Montarsi

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology - Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, viale dell’Università 10, 35020, Legnaro, Padua, Italy

Daniele Arnoldi

Affiliation Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Via E. Mach 1, 38010, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Gioia Capelli

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology - Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, viale dell’Università 10, 35020, Legnaro, Padua, Italy

Annapaola Rizzoli

Affiliation Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Via E. Mach 1, 38010, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Roberto Romi

Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDL LT DB FS. Performed the experiments: MDL LT DB. Analyzed the data: GLR GM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MDL LT DB FS GB FM DA. Wrote the paper: MDL. Participated in the study design and critically reviewed the manuscript: MDL LT DB FS GLR GC AR RR.