About the Authors
- Delphine Casabonne
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Contributed equally to this work with: Delphine Casabonne, Julia Almeida
* E-mail: 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
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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
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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
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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
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Affiliation Centro de Atención Primaria de Salud de Ledesma, Salamanca, Sanidad de Castilla y León (SACYL), Castilla y León, Spain
- Arancha Rodriguez-Caballero
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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
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Affiliation Service of Microbiology, University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
- Marcos González Díaz
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Affiliation Service of Hematology, University Hospital of Salamanca, IBMCC, IBSAL and Department of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
- Yolanda Benavente
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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
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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
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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.