About the Authors

Loris Riccardo Lopetuso

Contributed equally to this work with: Loris Riccardo Lopetuso, Marco Severgnini, Clarissa Consolandi, Giovanni Cammarota

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

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, UOC Medicina Interna e Gastroenterologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italia, Department of Medicine and Ageing Sciences,”G. d'Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italia, Center for Advanced Studies and Technology (CAST), “G. d'Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italia

Marco Severgnini

Contributed equally to this work with: Loris Riccardo Lopetuso, Marco Severgnini, Clarissa Consolandi, Giovanni Cammarota

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

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Italian National Research Council, Segrate (Milano), Italia

Silvia Pecere

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCSS, Roma, Italia, Centre for Endoscopic Research Therapeutic and Training CERTT, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italia

Francesca Romana Ponziani

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, UOC Medicina Interna e Gastroenterologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italia, Istituto di Patologia Speciale Medica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italia

Ivo Boskoski

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliations Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCSS, Roma, Italia, Centre for Endoscopic Research Therapeutic and Training CERTT, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italia

Alberto Larghi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCSS, Roma, Italia, Centre for Endoscopic Research Therapeutic and Training CERTT, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italia

Gianluca Quaranta

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Dipartimento di Microbiologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italia

Luca Masucci

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Dipartimento di Microbiologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italia

Gianluca Ianiro

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, UOC Medicina Interna e Gastroenterologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italia, Istituto di Patologia Speciale Medica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italia

Tania Camboni

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Italian National Research Council, Segrate (Milano), Italia

Antonio Gasbarrini

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, UOC Medicina Interna e Gastroenterologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italia, Istituto di Patologia Speciale Medica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italia

Guido Costamagna

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCSS, Roma, Italia, Centre for Endoscopic Research Therapeutic and Training CERTT, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italia

Clarissa Consolandi

Contributed equally to this work with: Loris Riccardo Lopetuso, Marco Severgnini, Clarissa Consolandi, Giovanni Cammarota

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Endoscopic Research Therapeutic and Training CERTT, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italia

Giovanni Cammarota

Contributed equally to this work with: Loris Riccardo Lopetuso, Marco Severgnini, Clarissa Consolandi, Giovanni Cammarota

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

giovanni.cammarota@unicatt.it

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, UOC Medicina Interna e Gastroenterologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italia, Istituto di Patologia Speciale Medica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.