About the Authors

Alessandra Lo Presti

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

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Anna Carannante

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

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Cecilia Fazio

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Arianna Neri

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Paola Vacca

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Luigina Ambrosio

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Florigio Lista

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Scientific Department, Army Medical Center, Rome, Italy

Silvia Fillo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Scientific Department, Army Medical Center, Rome, Italy

Paola Stefanelli

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

paola.stefanelli@iss.it

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: this study received partial funding from Pfizer. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.