About the Authors

Emanuele Miraglia del Giudice

emanuele.miraglia@unina2.it

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy

Anna Grandone

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy

Grazia Cirillo

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy

Nicola Santoro

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conneticut, United States of America

Alessandra Amato

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy

Carmine Brienza

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy

Piera Savarese

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy

Pierluigi Marzuillo

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy

Laura Perrone

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EMdG AG NS LP. Performed the experiments: GC AA PS CB PM. Analyzed the data: AG NS AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EMdG LP. Wrote the paper: EMdG AG LP.