About the Authors

Carlo Mengoli

Contributed equally to this work with: Carlo Mengoli, Monica Basso

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Monica Basso

Contributed equally to this work with: Carlo Mengoli, Monica Basso

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Samantha Andreis

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Renzo Scaggiante

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Mario Cruciani

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Center of Diffusive Diseases, ULSS 20, Verona, Italy

Roberto Ferretto

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, Santorso Hospital, Santorso (VI), Italy

Sandro Panese

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, Mestre Hospital, Venezia, Italy

Vinicio Manfrin

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, Vicenza Hospital, Vicenza, Italy

Daniela Francisci

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Elisabetta Schiaroli

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Gaetano Maffongelli

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, Tor Vergata University, Roma, Italy

Loredana Sarmati

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, Tor Vergata University, Roma, Italy

Massimo Andreoni

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, Tor Vergata University, Roma, Italy

Franco Baldelli

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Giorgio Palu'

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Saverio Giuseppe Parisi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

saverio.parisi@unipd.it

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.