About the Authors

Valentina Perri

Contributed equally to this work with: Valentina Perri, Elena Gianchecchi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Type 1 Diabetes Centre, Infectivology and Clinical Trials Research Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Elena Gianchecchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Valentina Perri, Elena Gianchecchi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Vismederi Srl, Siena, Italy

Affiliation Type 1 Diabetes Centre, Infectivology and Clinical Trials Research Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Loredana Cifaldi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Marsha Pellegrino

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Type 1 Diabetes Centre, Infectivology and Clinical Trials Research Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Ezio Giorda

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Research Laboratories, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Marco Andreani

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Transplant Biology, IME Foundation, Polyclinic of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Marco Cappa

Roles Resources

Affiliation Endocrinology Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy

Alessandra Fierabracci

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

alessandra.fierabracci@opbg.net

Affiliation Type 1 Diabetes Centre, Infectivology and Clinical Trials Research Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.