About the Authors

Antje Blumenthal

a.blumenthal@uq.edu.au (AB); b.saunders@centenary.org.au (BMS)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Gayathri Nagalingam

Affiliation Mycobacterial Research Program, Centenary Institute Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Jennifer H. Huch

Affiliation Mycobacterial Research Program, Centenary Institute Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Lara Walker

Affiliation Mycobacterial Research Program, Centenary Institute Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Gilles J. Guillemin

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

George A. Smythe

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sabine Ehrt

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Program in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Warwick J. Britton

Affiliations The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Bernadette M. Saunders

a.blumenthal@uq.edu.au (AB); b.saunders@centenary.org.au (BMS)

Affiliations The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB BMS WJB SE. Performed the experiments: AB GN JHH LW GJG GAS BMS. Analyzed the data: AB GN JHH LW GJG GAS BMS WJB SE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GJG GAS. Wrote the paper: AB SE WJB BMS.