^a Unit of Clinical Laboratory Science, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Via Alvaro del Portillo, 200, Rome 00128, Italy 

^b Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 

^c Unit of Virology, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy 

^d Research Unit Nursing Science, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy 

^e Department of Medical Affairs, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy 

^g Institute of Human Virology and Global Virus Network Center, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, USA 

^h Unit of Medical Statistics and Molecular Epidemiology, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy