About the Authors

Javier M. Rodríguez

j.rodriguez@isciii.es (JMR); mlsalas@cbm.csic.es (MLS)

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto Nacional de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

Leticia Tais Moreno

Current address: Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Affiliation Parque Científico de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

Alí Alejo

Current address: Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (INIA), Valdeolmos, Spain

Affiliation Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Anna Lacasta

Current address: International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya

Affiliation Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA)—Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

Fernando Rodríguez

Affiliation Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA)—Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

María L. Salas

j.rodriguez@isciii.es (JMR); mlsalas@cbm.csic.es (MLS)

Affiliation Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMR MLS. Performed the experiments: JMR LTM AA AL FR. Analyzed the data: JMR FR MLS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMR FR MLS. Wrote the paper: JMR MLS.