About the Authors

Chiara Motta

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

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Mary Turley

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbes, Infections and Microbiomes, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Giulia Barbieri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Agata Famà

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Francesco Coppolino

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Elisa Bellan Menegussi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Joan A. Geoghegan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbes, Infections and Microbiomes, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Concetta Beninati

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Angelica Pellegrini

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

angelica.pellegrini@unipv.it (AP); giampiero.pietrocola@unipv.it (GP)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Giampiero Pietrocola

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

angelica.pellegrini@unipv.it (AP); giampiero.pietrocola@unipv.it (GP)

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Research Department, Fondazione IRCSS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.