Acknowledgments
We thank all the members of Dr. Lorenza Putignani’s laboratories,
Unit of Human Microbiome, Genetic and Rare Diseases Area,
Bambino Gesu`Children’s Hospital, IRCCSRome, Italy and Unit
of Parasitology, Bambino Gesu`Children’s Hospital, IRCCSRome,
Italy, for providing the samples and the clinical data for the meta-
bolomics study here described.We are grateful to Dr. Alessandro
Giuliani, Department of Environment and Primary Prevention,
Istituto Superiore di Sanita`, Rome, Italy for his useful comments
and suggestions on the data analysis.
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