About the Authors

Marcello Moccia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

moccia.marcello@gmail.com

‡ MM, AT, and RA contributed equally as first authors on this work. VBM, GL, and MT contributed equally as last authors on this work.

Affiliations Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Care and Research Centre, Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive Science and Odontostomatology, “Federico II” University, Naples, Italy, Queen Square MS Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Andrea Tajani

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

‡ MM, AT, and RA contributed equally as first authors on this work. VBM, GL, and MT contributed equally as last authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Public Health, “Federico II” University, Naples, Italy

Rosa Acampora

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

‡ MM, AT, and RA contributed equally as first authors on this work. VBM, GL, and MT contributed equally as last authors on this work.

Affiliation Primary Care and Local Service Unit, Local Healthcare Services “Napoli 3 Sud”, Naples, Italy

Elisabetta Signoriello

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Multiple Sclerosis Centre, II Neurology Clinic, "Luigi Vanvitelli" University of Campania, Naples, Italy

Guido Corbisiero

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

Affiliation Local Healthcare Service 57, Local Healthcare Services “Napoli 3 Sud”, Naples, Italy

Adriano Vercellone

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Local Healthcare Services “Napoli 3 Sud”, Naples, Italy

Primo Sergianni

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Primary Care and Local Service Unit, Local Healthcare Services “Napoli 3 Sud”, Naples, Italy

Francesca Pennino

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, “Federico II” University, Naples, Italy

Roberta Lanzillo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Care and Research Centre, Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive Science and Odontostomatology, “Federico II” University, Naples, Italy

Raffaele Palladino

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Public Health, “Federico II” University, Naples, Italy, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Antonio Capacchione

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Merck Serono S.p.A., an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, Via Casilina, Rome, Italy

Vincenzo Brescia Morra

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ MM, AT, and RA contributed equally as first authors on this work. VBM, GL, and MT contributed equally as last authors on this work.

Affiliation Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Care and Research Centre, Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive Science and Odontostomatology, “Federico II” University, Naples, Italy

Giacomo Lus

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ MM, AT, and RA contributed equally as first authors on this work. VBM, GL, and MT contributed equally as last authors on this work.

Affiliation Multiple Sclerosis Centre, II Neurology Clinic, "Luigi Vanvitelli" University of Campania, Naples, Italy

Maria Triassi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ MM, AT, and RA contributed equally as first authors on this work. VBM, GL, and MT contributed equally as last authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Public Health, “Federico II” University, Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.