About the Authors

Thierry Wirth

wirth@mnhn.fr (TW); philip.supply@ibl.fr (PS)

Affiliations Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR-CNRS 5202, Département Systématique et Evolution, Paris, France

Falk Hildebrand

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Caroline Allix-Béguec

Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Bruxelles, Laboratoire Tuberculose et Mycobactéries, Brussels, Belgium

Florian Wölbeling

Affiliation Research Center Borstel, Department of Clinical Medicine, Borstel, Germany

Tanja Kubica

Affiliation Research Center Borstel, Department of Clinical Medicine, Borstel, Germany

Kristin Kremer

Affiliation National Institut of Public Health and Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Dick van Soolingen

Affiliation National Institut of Public Health and Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes

Affiliation Research Center Borstel, Department of Clinical Medicine, Borstel, Germany

Camille Locht

Affiliations INSERM U629, Lille, France, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France

Sylvain Brisse

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Genotyping of Pathogens and Public Health, Paris, France

Axel Meyer

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Philip Supply

Contributed equally to this work with: Philip Supply, Stefan Niemann

wirth@mnhn.fr (TW); philip.supply@ibl.fr (PS)

Affiliations INSERM U629, Lille, France, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France

Stefan Niemann

Contributed equally to this work with: Philip Supply, Stefan Niemann

Affiliation Research Center Borstel, Department of Clinical Medicine, Borstel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK DvS PS SN. Performed the experiments: CAB FW TK KK. Analyzed the data: TW FH SB PS SN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DvS PS SN. Wrote the paper: TW DvS SRG CL AM PS SN.