About the Authors

Laura Pérez-Martínez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

lperez@riojasalud.es

Affiliation Centro de Investigación Biomédica de La Rioja (CIBIR), Logroño, Spain

Lourdes Romero

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Centro de Investigación Biomédica de La Rioja (CIBIR), Logroño, Spain

Eva M. Verdugo-Sivianes

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliations Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, IBIS, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain, CIBERONC, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Sandra Muñoz-Galván

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliations Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, IBIS, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain, CIBERONC, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Susana Rubio-Mediavilla

Roles Formal analysis, Resources

Affiliation Servicio de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital San Pedro, Logroño, Spain

Ana Amiama-Roig

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Centro de Investigación Biomédica de La Rioja (CIBIR), Logroño, Spain

Amancio Carnero

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation

‡ AC and JRB worked as seniors researchers in this work.

Affiliations Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, IBIS, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain, CIBERONC, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

José-Ramón Blanco

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation

‡ AC and JRB worked as seniors researchers in this work.

Affiliations Centro de Investigación Biomédica de La Rioja (CIBIR), Logroño, Spain, Servicio de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario San Pedro, Logroño, Spain

Competing Interests

All authors have read the journal’s authorship agreement and policy on disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. Dra. L. Pérez-Martínez has received compensation for lectures from Abbvie, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, and Janssen. Dr. J. R. Blanco has carried out consulting work for Abbvie, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Janssen, Merck, ViiV Healthcare and THERA technologies; has received compensation for lectures from Abbvie, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Janssen, Merck, and ViiV Healthcare, as well as grants and payments for the development of educational presentations for Gilead Sciences, Bristol-Myers Squibb and ViiV Healthcare. The rest of the authors declare no conflict of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.