About the Authors

Lenka Mikalová

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Michal Strouhal

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Jan Oppelt

Affiliations CEITEC–Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Philippe Alain Grange

Affiliation Institut Cochin U1016, Laboratoire de Dermatologie—CNR Syphilis, Faculté de Médecine, Université Sorbonne Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Michel Janier

Affiliation Centre des MST, Hôpital Saint-Louis, AP-HP, Paris, France

Nadjet Benhaddou

Affiliations Institut Cochin U1016, Laboratoire de Dermatologie—CNR Syphilis, Faculté de Médecine, Université Sorbonne Paris Descartes, Paris, France, Service de Bactériologie, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Centre Cochin-Hôtel Dieu-Broca, Paris, France

Nicolas Dupin

Affiliations Institut Cochin U1016, Laboratoire de Dermatologie—CNR Syphilis, Faculté de Médecine, Université Sorbonne Paris Descartes, Paris, France, Service de Dermatologie-Vénéréologie, Hôpital Cochin–Pavillon Tarnier, AP-HP, Paris, France

David Šmajs

dsmajs@med.muni.cz

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DŠ LM PAG ND. Data curation: LM MS. Formal analysis: LM MS DŠ JO. Funding acquisition: DŠ MS LM. Investigation: LM MS PAG MJ NB ND. Methodology: LM DŠ MS. Project administration: LM DŠ. Resources: ND PAG NB MJ DŠ. Validation: DŠ LM. Visualization: LM MS DŠ. Writing – original draft: DŠ LM. Writing – review & editing: LM MS PAG MJ NB ND DŠ JO.