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Authors and Affiliations

1. Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Parasitology, University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Av. Manuel Siurot s/n 41013, Seville, Spain

   Paula Gómez Estévez, José Miguel Cisneros, José Antonio Lepe, Guillermo Martín-Gutiérrez & José Manuel Ortiz de la Rosa

2. Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), University Hospital Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/University of Seville, Seville, Spain

   Paula Gómez Estévez, José Miguel Cisneros, José Antonio Lepe, Guillermo Martín-Gutiérrez & José Manuel Ortiz de la Rosa

3. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Madrid, Spain

   José Miguel Cisneros, José Antonio Lepe, Guillermo Martín-Gutiérrez & José Manuel Ortiz de la Rosa

4. Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

   José Miguel Cisneros

5. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

   José Antonio Lepe

6. Department of Health Sciences, Loyola Andalucía University, Sevilla, Spain

   Guillermo Martín-Gutiérrez

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PGE: Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft; GMG: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Generation of figures and schemes, Funding acquisition, Writing – review and original draft; JMC: Resources, Supervision, Writing – review and editing; JAL: Resources, Writing – review and editing; JMOR: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review and editing. All authors discussed the results and edited the manuscript before submission.

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Correspondence to Guillermo Martín-Gutiérrez or José Manuel Ortiz de la Rosa.

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