About the Authors

Narges Zarrabi

N.Zarrabi@uva.nl

Affiliation Computational Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Mattia Prosperi

Affiliations College of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Robert G. Belleman

Affiliation Computational Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Manuela Colafigli

Affiliation Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Andrea De Luca

Affiliations Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy, Unit of Infectious Diseases, Siena University Hospital, Siena, Italy

Peter M. A. Sloot

Affiliations Computational Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, National Research University ITMO, St. Petersburg, Russia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the phylogenetic analysis: MP. Provided the visualization support: RGB. Conceived and designed the experiments: NZ PMAS. Performed the experiments: NZ. Analyzed the data: MP MC ADL NZ RGB PMAS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NZ MP RGB. Wrote the paper: NZ MP RGB MC ADL PMAS.