About the Authors
- Dora Rolo
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Contributed equally to this work with: Dora Rolo, Alexandra S. Simões, Arnau Domenech
Affiliations Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Microbiology Department, Universistat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de investigación en red de enfermedades respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Alexandra S. Simões
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Contributed equally to this work with: Dora Rolo, Alexandra S. Simões, Arnau Domenech
Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal, Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
- Arnau Domenech
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Contributed equally to this work with: Dora Rolo, Alexandra S. Simões, Arnau Domenech
Affiliations Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Microbiology Department, Universistat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de investigación en red de enfermedades respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Asunción Fenoll
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Affiliation National Center for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Josefina Liñares
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Affiliations Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Microbiology Department, Universistat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de investigación en red de enfermedades respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Hermínia de Lencastre
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Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal, Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Carmen Ardanuy
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Affiliations Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Microbiology Department, Universistat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de investigación en red de enfermedades respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Raquel Sá-Leão
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* E-mail: rsaleao@itqb.unl.pt
Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal, Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
Competing Interests
HL is an editor for this journal. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Revised the manuscript and approved the final version: RSL DR ASS AD AF JL HL CA. Conceived and designed the experiments: DR ASS JL CA RSL. Performed the experiments: DR ASS AD. Analyzed the data: DR ASS AD CA RSL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AF JL HL CA RSL. Wrote the paper: DR ASS RSL.