**Author details**

Gaetano Giammona1,2, Giuseppe Pitarresi1 , Fabio Salvatore Palumbo1 , Susanna Maraldi<sup>3</sup> , Sara Scarponi<sup>3</sup> and Carlo Luca Romanò<sup>3</sup> \*

\*Address all correspondence to: carlo.romano@grupposandonato.it

1 Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science and Technologies, Universityà degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

2 Institute of Biophysics at Palermo, Italian National Research Council, Palermo, Italy

3 Department of Reconstructive Surgery of Osteo-articular Infections C.R.I.O. Unit, I.R.C.C.S. Galeazzi Orthopaedic Institute, Milano, Italy
