About the Authors

Olga Mestre

Affiliation Unité de Génétique Mycobactérienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Tao Luo

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Tiago Dos Vultos

Current address: Microbial Development Unit, ITQB-UNL, Lisbon, Portugal

Affiliation Unité de Génétique Mycobactérienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Kristin Kremer

Affiliation Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Alan Murray

Affiliations Unité de Génétique Mycobactérienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Amine Namouchi

Affiliation Unité de Génétique Mycobactérienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Céline Jackson

Affiliation Unité de Génétique Mycobactérienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Jean Rauzier

Affiliation Unité de Génétique Mycobactérienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Pablo Bifani

Affiliation Mycobacterial Immunology, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

Rob Warren

Affiliation NRF Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research/MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Voahangy Rasolofo

Affiliation Unité de la Tuberculose et des Mycobactéries, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Jian Mei

Affiliation Department of Tuberculosis Control, Shanghai Municipal CDC, Shanghai, China

Qian Gao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Brigitte Gicquel

brigitte.gicquel@pasteur.fr

Affiliation Unité de Génétique Mycobactérienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OM TDV JM QG BG. Performed the experiments: OM TL CJ JR. Analyzed the data: OM TL TDV AN QG BG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK AM AN PB RW VR. Wrote the paper: OM TDV KK AM AN RW VR QG TL BG.