About the Authors

Duccio Medini

Affiliation Cellular Microbiology and BioInformatics Unit, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy

Antonello Covacci

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: antonello_covacci@chiron.com

Affiliation Cellular Microbiology and BioInformatics Unit, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy

Claudio Donati

Affiliation Cellular Microbiology and BioInformatics Unit, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

DM, AC, and CD conceived and designed the experiments, and analyzed the data. DM and CD performed the experiments and wrote the paper.