About the Authors

Irazú Contreras

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Neurochemistry Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Estado de México, México

José A. Estrada

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Neurochemistry Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Estado de México, México

Hannah Guak

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Caroline Martel

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Alborz Borjian

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Benjamin Ralph

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Marina T. Shio

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Sylvie Fournier

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Connie M. Krawczyk

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Martin Olivier

martin.olivier@mcgill.ca

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, McGill TB International Centre and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IC JAE MTS MO. Performed the experiments: IC JAE HG CM AB BR MTS. Analyzed the data: IC JAE HG CM AB BR MTS SF CMK MO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SF CMK MO. Wrote the paper: IC JAE MTS CMK MO.