About the Authors

Antonio Mazzarelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Antonio Mazzarelli, Maria Letizia Giancola

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases, INMI “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Maria Letizia Giancola

Contributed equally to this work with: Antonio Mazzarelli, Maria Letizia Giancola

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases, INMI “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Anna Farina

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases, INMI “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Luisa Marchioni

Roles Methodology

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases, INMI “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Martina Rueca

Roles Methodology

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases, INMI “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Cesare Ernesto Maria Gruber

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases, INMI “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Barbara Bartolini

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases, INMI “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Tommaso Ascoli Bartoli

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases, INMI “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Gaetano Maffongelli

Roles Supervision

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases, INMI “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Maria Rosaria Capobianchi

Roles Supervision

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases, INMI “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Giuseppe Ippolito

Roles Supervision

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases, INMI “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Antonino Di Caro

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

antonino.dicaro@inmi.it

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases, INMI “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Emanuele Nicastri

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases, INMI “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Valerio Pazienza

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Fondazione-IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza” Hospital, S. Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy

INMI COVID-19 study group

Membership of the Collaborators Members of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases (INMI) COVID-19 study group is provided in the acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.