About the Authors

Leire Aguinagalde

Affiliation Spanish Pneumococcal Reference Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Bruno Corsini

Affiliation Spanish Pneumococcal Reference Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Arnau Domenech

Affiliations Microbiology Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge-IDIBELL-Barcelona University, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain

Mirian Domenech

Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas-CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Jordi Cámara

Affiliations Microbiology Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge-IDIBELL-Barcelona University, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain

Carmen Ardanuy

Affiliations Microbiology Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge-IDIBELL-Barcelona University, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain

Ernesto García

Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas-CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Josefina Liñares

Affiliations Microbiology Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge-IDIBELL-Barcelona University, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain

Asunción Fenoll

Affiliation Spanish Pneumococcal Reference Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Jose Yuste

jyuste@isciii.es

Affiliations Spanish Pneumococcal Reference Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CA JL AF JY. Performed the experiments: LA BC AD JC MD CA AF JY. Analyzed the data: LA AD CA EG JL AF JY. Wrote the paper: AD CA EG JL JY.