About the Authors

Biljana Petrovic

Contributed equally to this work with: Biljana Petrovic, Tatiana Gianni

Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, via S. Giacomo 12, Bologna, Italy

Tatiana Gianni

Contributed equally to this work with: Biljana Petrovic, Tatiana Gianni

Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, via S. Giacomo 12, Bologna, Italy

Valentina Gatta

Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, via S. Giacomo 12, Bologna, Italy

Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume

gabriella.campadelli@unibo.it

Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, via S. Giacomo 12, Bologna, Italy

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: GCF owns shares in Nouscom.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GCF. Data curation: BP TG VG. Formal analysis: BP TG. Funding acquisition: GCF TG. Investigation: BP TG VG. Methodology: BP TG VG. Project administration: GCF. Resources: BP TG VG. Visualization: BP TG. Writing – original draft: GCF. Writing – review & editing: GCF.