About the Authors

Delia Goletti

d.goletti@tiscali.it

Affiliation Translational Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research, National Institute for Infectious Diseases (INMI) L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Carrara Stefania

Affiliation Translational Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research, National Institute for Infectious Diseases (INMI) L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Ornella Butera

Affiliation Translational Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research, National Institute for Infectious Diseases (INMI) L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Massimo Amicosante

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Martin Ernst

Affiliation Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Ilaria Sauzullo

Affiliation Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department, “La Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy

Vincenzo Vullo

Affiliation Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department, “La Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy

Daniela Cirillo

Affiliation Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, “San Raffaele” Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Emanuele Borroni

Affiliation Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, “San Raffaele” Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Roumiana Markova

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Allergology, National Center for Infectious and Parassitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria

Roumiana Drenska

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Allergology, National Center for Infectious and Parassitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria

José Dominguez

Affiliation Fundació Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Irene Latorre

Affiliation Fundació Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Claudio Angeletti

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research, INMI “L.Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy

Assunta Navarra

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research, INMI “L.Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy

Nicola Petrosillo

Affiliation Clinical Department, INMI “L.Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy

Francesco Nicola Lauria

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research, INMI “L.Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy

Giuseppe Ippolito

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research, INMI “L.Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy

Giovanni Battista Migliori

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, S. Maugeri Foundation, IRCCS, Tradate, Italy

Christoph Lange

Affiliation Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Enrico Girardi

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research, INMI “L.Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

DG, SC, MA and EG have a patent pending on T-cell assay based on RD1 selected peptides.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DG GBM CL EG. Performed the experiments: OB ME IS EB RHD JD IL. Analyzed the data: DG SC VV DMC RKM CA AN EG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DG MA VV DMC RKM NP FNL GI. Wrote the paper: DG SC CA GBM CL EG.