About the Authors

Yacine Abed

Affiliation Research Center in Infectious Diseases of the CHUQ-CHUL and Laval University, Québec City, Québec, Canada

Andrés Pizzorno

Affiliation Research Center in Infectious Diseases of the CHUQ-CHUL and Laval University, Québec City, Québec, Canada

Xavier Bouhy

Affiliation Research Center in Infectious Diseases of the CHUQ-CHUL and Laval University, Québec City, Québec, Canada

Guy Boivin

Guy.Boivin@crchul.ulaval.ca

Affiliation Research Center in Infectious Diseases of the CHUQ-CHUL and Laval University, Québec City, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YA GB. Performed the experiments: YA AP XB. Analyzed the data: YA AP GB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP XB. Wrote the paper: YA GB.