About the Authors

Marilena P. Etna

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Alessandro Sinigaglia

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

Angela Grassi

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padua, Italy, Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

Elena Giacomini

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Alessandra Romagnoli

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases "L. Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy

Manuela Pardini

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Martina Severa

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Melania Cruciani

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Fabiana Rizzo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Eleni Anastasiadou

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Institute for RNA Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Barbara Di Camillo

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

Luisa Barzon

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

Gian Maria Fimia

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute for Infectious Diseases "L. Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy, Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Technology, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

Riccardo Manganelli

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

Eliana M. Coccia

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

eliana.coccia@iss.it

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist