About the Authors
- Elisabetta Caselli
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: csb@unife.it
Affiliations Section of Microbiology and Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, CIAS Interdepartmental Research Centre, Departments of Medical Sciences and Architecture, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
- Silvio Brusaferro
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
- Maddalena Coccagna
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation CIAS Interdepartmental Research Centre, Departments of Medical Sciences and Architecture, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
- Luca Arnoldo
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
- Filippo Berloco
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, Roma, Italy
- Paola Antonioli
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Infection Prevention Control and Risk Management, S. Anna University Hospital, Ferrara, Italy
- Rosanna Tarricone
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Centre for Research on Health and Social Care Management (CERGAS), Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
- Gabriele Pelissero
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Silvano Nola
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Azienda USL di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
- Vincenza La Fauci
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences and Dental and Functional Images, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
- Alessandro Conte
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
- Lorenzo Tognon
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Ospedale di Santa Maria del Prato, Feltre (Belluno), Italy
- Giovanni Villone
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti di Foggia, Foggia, Italy
- Nelso Trua
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Ospedale Sant’Antonio Abate, Tolmezzo (Udine), Italy
- Sante Mazzacane
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation CIAS Interdepartmental Research Centre, Departments of Medical Sciences and Architecture, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
- for the SAN-ICA Study Group
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¶The complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgements
Affiliations Section of Microbiology and Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, CIAS Interdepartmental Research Centre, Departments of Medical Sciences and Architecture, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, Roma, Italy, Department of Infection Prevention Control and Risk Management, S. Anna University Hospital, Ferrara, Italy, Centre for Research on Health and Social Care Management (CERGAS), Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Azienda USL di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Dental and Functional Images, University of Messina, Messina, Italy, Ospedale di Santa Maria del Prato, Feltre (Belluno), Italy, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti di Foggia, Foggia, Italy, Ospedale Sant’Antonio Abate, Tolmezzo (Udine), Italy
Competing Interests
The authors declare that they received unrestricted funds by Copma scrl (Ferrara, Italy), but the funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.