About the Authors

Kaisa Thorell

Contributed equally to this work with: Kaisa Thorell, Koji Yahara

Affiliation Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Koji Yahara

Contributed equally to this work with: Kaisa Thorell, Koji Yahara

Affiliation Dept. of Bacteriology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Elvire Berthenet

Affiliation Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease group, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

Daniel J. Lawson

Affiliation Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Jane Mikhail

Affiliation Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease group, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

Ikuko Kato

Affiliation Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Alfonso Mendez

Affiliation Instituto Politecnico Nacional, ENCB, Mexico City, Mexico

Cosmeri Rizzato

Affiliation Dipartimento di Ricerca Traslazionale e Nuove Tecnologie in Medicina e Chirurgia, Universitá di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

María Mercedes Bravo

Affiliation Grupo de Investigación en Biología del Cáncer, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Bogota, Colombia

Rumiko Suzuki

Affiliation Dept. of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Oita, Japan

Yoshio Yamaoka

Affiliation Dept. of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Oita, Japan

Javier Torres

Affiliation Unidad de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas, UMAE Pediatria, IMSS, Mexico City, Mexico

Samuel K. Sheppard

Affiliation Milner Center for Evolution, Dept. of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

Daniel Falush

danielfalush@googlemail.com

Affiliation Milner Center for Evolution, Dept. of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KT KY SKS DF. Data curation: EB KT JM. Formal analysis: KT KY EB AM. Investigation: KT KY EB. Methodology: DJL KY DF KT. Project administration: KT JT. Resources: KT IK AM MMB RS YY JT SKS CR. Supervision: SKS DF. Writing – original draft: KT KY EB DF. Writing – review & editing: KT KY EB IK JT DF CR SKS.