About the Authors

Mélanie V. Larcher

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

Emeline Pasquier

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

R. Stephen MacDonald

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

Raymund J. Wellinger

Raymund.Wellinger@Usherbrooke.ca

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MVL RSM RJW. Formal analysis: MVL RSM RJW. Funding acquisition: RJW. Investigation: MVL EP RSM. Methodology: MVL RSM. Project administration: RJW. Supervision: RJW. Validation: MVL EP RSM. Visualization: MVL EP. Writing – original draft: MVL RJW. Writing – review & editing: RJW.