About the Authors

Gian Mario Cosseddu

gianmario.cosseddu@iss.it

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy, Department of Infectology, The SCRIPPS Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America

Romolo Nonno

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Gabriele Vaccari

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Cecilia Bucalossi

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Natalia Fernandez-Borges

Affiliations Department of Infectology, The SCRIPPS Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America, 33458CIC bioGUNE, Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia, Derio, Spain

Michele Angelo Di Bari

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Joaquin Castilla

Affiliations Department of Infectology, The SCRIPPS Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America, 33458CIC bioGUNE, Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia, Derio, Spain, IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain

Umberto Agrimi

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GMC RN GV JC UA. Performed the experiments: GMC CB NFB MADB. Analyzed the data: GMC RN GV JC UA. Wrote the paper: GMC RN UA.