About the Authors

Elena Sieni

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Sieni, Valentina Cetica

Affiliation Department Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria A. Meyer Children Hospital, Firenze, Italy

Valentina Cetica

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Sieni, Valentina Cetica

Affiliation Department Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria A. Meyer Children Hospital, Firenze, Italy

Andrea Piccin

Affiliation Hematology Department and BMT Unit, San Maurizio Regional Hospital, Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy

Filippo Gherlinzoni

Affiliation Divisione di Ematologia, Department of Medicina Specialistica, U.L.S.S. 9 -Ospedale "S. Maria di Ca' Foncello", Treviso, Italy

Ferdinando Carlo Sasso

Affiliation Department of Internal and Experimental Medicine, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Marco Rabusin

Affiliation I.R.C.C.S. Burlo Garofolo, UO Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Trieste, Italy

Luciano Attard

Affiliation Infectious Diseases, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria S.Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy

Alberto Bosi

Affiliation Hematology Department, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi, Firenze, Italy

Daniela Pende

Affiliation IRCCS A.O.U. San Martino-IST, Genova, Italy

Lorenzo Moretta

Affiliation IRCCS Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy

Maurizio Aricò

m.arico@meyer.it

Affiliation Department Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria A. Meyer Children Hospital, Firenze, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES VC MA. Performed the experiments: VC DP. Analyzed the data: ES VC LM MA. Wrote the paper: ES VC DP LM MA. Cared for the patients: ES AP FG FCS MR LA AB MA. Collected the clinical data: ES AP FG FCS MR LA AB MA. Approved the manuscript in its final version: ES AP FG FCS MR LA AB MA.