About the Authors
- Emmanuelle Bille
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Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuelle Bille, Roisin Ure
Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France, Unité de pathogénie des infections systémiques, Université Paris Descartes, Faculté de Médecine, Paris, France, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
- Roisin Ure
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Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuelle Bille, Roisin Ure
Current address: Scottish Meningococcal and Pneumococcal Reference Laboratory, Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Affiliation Department of Zoology, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen research, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Stephen J. Gray
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Affiliation Meningococcal Reference Unit, Health Protection Agency, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Edward B. Kaczmarski
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Affiliation Meningococcal Reference Unit, Health Protection Agency, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Noel D. McCarthy
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Affiliation Department of Zoology, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen research, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Xavier Nassif
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Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France, Unité de pathogénie des infections systémiques, Université Paris Descartes, Faculté de Médecine, Paris, France, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
- Martin C. J. Maiden
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Affiliation Department of Zoology, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen research, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Colin R. Tinsley
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* E-mail: colin.tinsley@grignon.inra.fr
Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France, Unité de pathogénie des infections systémiques, Université Paris Descartes, Faculté de Médecine, Paris, France, Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaire, UMR AgroParisTech/INRA 1238/CNRS 2585, AgroParisTech, Centre de Grignon, Thiverval-Grignon, France
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: EB RU SG EK NDM XN MCJM CT. Performed the experiments: EB RU CT. Analyzed the data: EB RU SG EK NDM XN MCJM CT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG EK. Wrote the paper: EB NDM XN MCJM CT.