About the Authors

Babacar Faye

Contributed equally to this work with: Babacar Faye, Frederick Arnaud

Affiliation UMR/CNRS 6247, Clermont Université, INSERM, U931, Faculté de Médecine, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Frederick Arnaud

Contributed equally to this work with: Babacar Faye, Frederick Arnaud

Current address: Institute of Comparative Medecine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Affiliation UMR/CNRS 6247, Clermont Université, INSERM, U931, Faculté de Médecine, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Eric Peyretaillade

Current address: Laboratoire Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement, UMR CNRS 6023, Aubière, France

Affiliation UMR/CNRS 6247, Clermont Université, INSERM, U931, Faculté de Médecine, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Emilie Brasset

Affiliation UMR/CNRS 6247, Clermont Université, INSERM, U931, Faculté de Médecine, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Bernard Dastugue

Affiliation UMR/CNRS 6247, Clermont Université, INSERM, U931, Faculté de Médecine, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Chantal Vaury

Chantal.VAURY@inserm.u-clermont1.fr

Affiliation UMR/CNRS 6247, Clermont Université, INSERM, U931, Faculté de Médecine, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FA CV. Performed the experiments: BF FA EP EB. Analyzed the data: FA EP EB BD CV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BF FA EB. Wrote the paper: FA CV.