About the Authors

Valentina Donà

Current address: Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Disease, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Marcello Ventura

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Michela Sali

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Alessandro Cascioferro

Current address: Integrated Mycobacterial Pathogenomics Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Roberta Provvedi

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Giorgio Palù

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Giovanni Delogu

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Riccardo Manganelli

riccardo.manganelli@unipd.it

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RM GD. Performed the experiments: VD MV MS AC. Analyzed the data: VD MS MV RP GD RM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GP. Wrote the paper: RM VD GD RP.