About the Authors

Lilia Cinti

Contributed equally to this work with: Lilia Cinti, Lucrezia Tuosto

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

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology, Sapienza University o f Rome, Rome, Italy, Department of Medical Biotechnologies, PhD of National Interest in Innovation in the Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Infections at Epidemic-Pandemic Risk, University of Siena, Siena, Italy, University Hospital “Policlinico Umberto I”, Rome, Italy

Lucrezia Tuosto

Contributed equally to this work with: Lilia Cinti, Lucrezia Tuosto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Experimental Medicine, Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Cell Therapies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, Phd of Network Oncology and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Piergiorgio Roberto

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

piergiorgio.roberto@uniroma1.it

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology, Sapienza University o f Rome, Rome, Italy, Department of Public Health, PhD National Programme in One Health approaches to Infectious Diseases and Life Science Research, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, University Hospital “Policlinico Umberto I”, Rome, Italy

Roberta Campagna

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology, Sapienza University o f Rome, Rome, Italy

Aurelia Rughetti

Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Cell Therapies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Chiara Napoletano

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Cell Therapies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Alain J. Gelibter

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Oncology, Department of Radiological, Oncological and Pathological Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, University Hospital “Policlinico Umberto I”, Rome, Italy

Daniele Santini

Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, University Hospital “Policlinico Umberto I”, Rome, Italy

Guido Antonelli

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology, Sapienza University o f Rome, Rome, Italy, University Hospital “Policlinico Umberto I”, Rome, Italy

Ombretta Turriziani

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology, Sapienza University o f Rome, Rome, Italy, University Hospital “Policlinico Umberto I”, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.