About the Authors

Marilena P. Etna

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

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

Aurora Signorazzi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

‡ These authors are shared 2nd position on this work.

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology & Infection Prevention, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Daniela Ricci

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

‡ These authors are shared 2nd position on this work.

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

Martina Severa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

‡ These authors are shared 2nd position on this work.

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

Fabiana Rizzo

Roles Data curation, Investigation

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

Elena Giacomini

Roles Data curation, Investigation

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

Andrea Gaggioli

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation National Center for the Control and Evaluation of Medicines, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Isabelle Bekeredjian-Ding

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany

Anke Huckriede

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology & Infection Prevention, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Eliana M. Coccia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, 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.