About the Authors

Simone Filardo

Contributed equally to this work with: Simone Filardo, Marisa Di Pietro

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

simone.filardo@uniroma1.it

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Section of Microbiology, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Marisa Di Pietro

Contributed equally to this work with: Simone Filardo, Marisa Di Pietro

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Section of Microbiology, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Patrizio Pasqualetti

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

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Section of Health Statistics and Biometry, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Martina Manera

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

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Section of Microbiology, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Fabiana Diaco

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Section of Microbiology, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Rosa Sessa

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Section of Microbiology, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.