About the Authors

Emmanouil Angelakis
Hervé Richet
Jean-Marc Rolain
Bernard La Scola
Didier Raoult

Didier.raoult@gmail.com

Affiliation URMITE UMR 6236, CNRS-IRD, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Marseille, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DR EA. Performed the experiments: EA. Analyzed the data: EA HR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EA J-MR BLS. Wrote the paper: EA DR.