1. Lucia Pallecchi is Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology at the University of Siena Medical School (Siena, Italy), working in the research group of Gian Maria Rossolini. Her main fields of investigation concern the dynamics of emergence and dissemination of acquired antimicrobial resistance in commensal bacteria.
2. Alessandro Bartoloni is Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Florence Medical School (Florence, Italy) and Director of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit of the University of Florence. He has a long-standing experience in health cooperation and research projects in Latin American countries.
3. Eduardo Gotuzzo is Principal Professor at the Department of Medicine and Director of the ‘AvH’ Institute of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia in Lima (Peru), and he is also Head of the Department of Transmissible Diseases at the Cayetano Heredia Hospital (Lima, Peru).
4. Gian Maria Rossolini is Full Professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology at the University of Siena Medical School and the University of Florence Medical School, and Director of the Clinical Microbiology and Virology Unit of the University of Florence. His research group’s activity is mainly focused on different aspects related to antimicrobial agents and antimicrobial resistance mechanisms.