About the Authors

Paolo Gaibani

paolo.gaibani@unibo.it

Affiliation Operative Unit of Clinical Microbiology, Regional Reference Centre for Microbiological Emergencies (CRREM), St.Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Francesca Cavrini

Affiliation Operative Unit of Clinical Microbiology, Regional Reference Centre for Microbiological Emergencies (CRREM), St.Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Ernest A. Gould

Affiliation UMR190 Emergence des Pathologies Virales, Unité des Virus Emergents, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille, France

Giada Rossini

Affiliation Operative Unit of Clinical Microbiology, Regional Reference Centre for Microbiological Emergencies (CRREM), St.Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Anna Pierro

Affiliation Operative Unit of Clinical Microbiology, Regional Reference Centre for Microbiological Emergencies (CRREM), St.Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Maria Paola Landini

Affiliation Operative Unit of Clinical Microbiology, Regional Reference Centre for Microbiological Emergencies (CRREM), St.Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Vittorio Sambri

Affiliation Unit of Microbiology, Central Laboratory “Area Vasta Romagna”, Pievesestina, Cesena, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PG EAG. Performed the experiments: PG FC. Analyzed the data: PG EAG VS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MPL VS. Wrote the paper: PG FC EAG GR AP MPL VS.