Di Pasquale, Adriano http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9328-3972
Radomski, Nicolas http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7480-4197
Mangone, Iolanda http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6716-091X
Calistri, Paolo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6004-9373
Lorusso, Alessio http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6156-8212
Cammà, Cesare http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7547-1195
Article History
Received: 21 June 2021
Accepted: 20 October 2021
First Online: 30 October 2021
Declarations
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: The outcomes of the present study derive from the official control activities of the Public Health Local Authority of Abruzzo region. All human data and samples were collected ethically and the need for informed consents to participates was deemed unnecessary according to national regulations (“Decreto della Giunta Regionale DGR n. 194 del 2.04.2021” from the “Dipartimento Sanità della REGIONE ABRUZZO”) and was waived by an Institutional Review Board (IRB), so-called the IRB of the National Reference Centre for Whole Genome Sequencing of microbial pathogens: database and bioinformatic analysis, because the related data and samples were openly available to the public in GISAID before the initiation of the study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.