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Competing Interests

The authors declare they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Marina Penna conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Tiziano Bacci conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Luisa Nicoletti contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Sante Francesco Rende conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Benedetta Trabucco conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Paola Gennaro conceived and designed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Veronica Marusso conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Anna Maria Cicero contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Funding

The Monitoring Plan was founded by the Italian National Civil Protection Agency in the framework of the Costa Concordia accident emergency. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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