About the Authors

Muriel Vayssier-Taussat

christoph.dehio@unibas.ch (CD); mvayssier@vet-alfort.f (MVT)

Affiliations Unité Sous Contrat Bartonella, INRA, Maisons-Alfort, France, Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Danielle Le Rhun

Affiliation Unité Sous Contrat Bartonella, INRA, Maisons-Alfort, France

Hong Kuan Deng

Affiliation Unité Sous Contrat Bartonella, INRA, Maisons-Alfort, France

Francis Biville

Affiliation UMR BIPAR, Equipe des Bactéries Zoonotiques Hémotropes, ENVA/AFSSA, Maisons-Alfort, France

Sandra Cescau

Affiliation Unité des Génomes Bactériens, Institut Pasteur, CNRS URA 2171, Paris, France

Antoine Danchin

Affiliation AMAbiotics, Evry, France

Geneviève Marignac

Affiliation Unité Sous Contrat Bartonella, INRA, Maisons-Alfort, France

Evelyne Lenaour

Affiliation Unité Sous Contrat Bartonella, INRA, Maisons-Alfort, France

Henri Jean Boulouis

Affiliation UMR BIPAR, Equipe des Bactéries Zoonotiques Hémotropes, ENVA/AFSSA, Maisons-Alfort, France

Maria Mavris

Affiliation Unité Sous Contrat Bartonella, INRA, Maisons-Alfort, France

Lionel Arnaud

Affiliation Institut de Transfusion Sanguine, Paris, France

Huanming Yang

Affiliation Beijing Genomics Institute, Shenzhen, China

Jing Wang

Affiliation Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Maxime Quebatte

Affiliation Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Philipp Engel

Affiliation Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Henri Saenz

Affiliation Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Christoph Dehio

christoph.dehio@unibas.ch (CD); mvayssier@vet-alfort.f (MVT)

Affiliation Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MVT CD. Performed the experiments: MVT DLR HKD GM MM LA MQ HS. Analyzed the data: MVT EL PE HS CD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MVT FB SC AD HJB HY JW PE HS CD. Wrote the paper: MVT CD.