About the Authors

Delphine Casabonne

Contributed equally to this work with: Delphine Casabonne, Julia Almeida

dcasabonne@iconcologia.net

Affiliations Unit of Infections and Cancer (UNIC), IDIBELL, Institut Català d’ Oncologia, L’ Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain

Julia Almeida

Contributed equally to this work with: Delphine Casabonne, Julia Almeida

Affiliation Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular del Cancer, Centro de Investigacion del Cancer/IBMCC (CSIC-USAL), IBSAL, Department of Medicine and Cytometry Service, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

Wendy G. Nieto

Affiliation Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular del Cancer, Centro de Investigacion del Cancer/IBMCC (CSIC-USAL), IBSAL, Department of Medicine and Cytometry Service, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

Alfonso Romero

Affiliation Gerencia de Atención Primaria de Salud, Centro de Atención Primaria de Salud Miguel Armijo Salamanca, Sanidad de Castilla y León (SACYL), Castilla y León, Spain

Paulino Fernández-Navarro

Affiliation Centro de Atención Primaria de Salud de Ledesma, Salamanca, Sanidad de Castilla y León (SACYL), Castilla y León, Spain

Arancha Rodriguez-Caballero

Affiliation Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular del Cancer, Centro de Investigacion del Cancer/IBMCC (CSIC-USAL), IBSAL, Department of Medicine and Cytometry Service, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

Santiago Muñoz-Criado

Affiliation Service of Microbiology, University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

Marcos González Díaz

Affiliation Service of Hematology, University Hospital of Salamanca, IBMCC, IBSAL and Department of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

Yolanda Benavente

Affiliations Unit of Infections and Cancer (UNIC), IDIBELL, Institut Català d’ Oncologia, L’ Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain

Silvia de Sanjosé

Affiliations Unit of Infections and Cancer (UNIC), IDIBELL, Institut Català d’ Oncologia, L’ Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain

Alberto Orfao

Affiliation Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular del Cancer, Centro de Investigacion del Cancer/IBMCC (CSIC-USAL), IBSAL, Department of Medicine and Cytometry Service, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

the Primary Health Care Group of Salamanca for the Study of MBL

Competing Interests

Dr. Silvia de Sanjosé is a co-author and she serves as an Academic Editor for this journal. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JA AO DC SS. Performed the experiments: JA AO WGN AR-C. Analyzed the data: DC YB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC YB JA WGN AR-C SM-C. Wrote the paper: DC JA AO MG SS YB. Selected the cohort of individuals and performed the coordination with the Primary Health Care Group of Salamanca of the study of MBL (List S1 in File S1): AR. Collected samples and data from healthy individuals and contributed to coordinate sample collection: PF-N.