About the Authors

María-Carmen Turrientes

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain

Fernando Baquero

baquero@bitmailer.net (FB); jgalanm.hrc@salud.madrid.org (JCG)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain, Joint Unit for Research in Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence, Madrid, Spain

Bruce R. Levin

Affiliation Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta Georgia, United States of America

José-Luis Martínez

Affiliations Joint Unit for Research in Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence, Madrid, Spain, Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Madrid, Spain

Aida Ripoll

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain

José-María González-Alba

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain

Raquel Tobes

Affiliation Research Department, Era7 Bioinformatics, Granada, Spain

Marina Manrique

Affiliation Research Department, Era7 Bioinformatics, Granada, Spain

Maria-Rosario Baquero

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Alfonso X El Sabio University, Madrid, Spain

Mario-José Rodríguez-Domínguez

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain

Rafael Cantón

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain, Faculty of Health Sciences, Alfonso X El Sabio University, Madrid, Spain

Juan-Carlos Galán

baquero@bitmailer.net (FB); jgalanm.hrc@salud.madrid.org (JCG)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain, Joint Unit for Research in Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCG FB BRL JLM RT. Performed the experiments: MCT AR MJRD MM. Analyzed the data: FB JCG MCT BRL JLM MRB JMGA RT MM RC. Wrote the paper: FB MCT JCG BRL.