About the Authors

Stéphane Leung-Theung-Long

leung_theung_long@transgene.fr

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Transgene, Lyon, France

Marie Gouanvic

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Transgene, Lyon, France

Charles-Antoine Coupet

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Transgene, Lyon, France

Aurélie Ray

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Transgene, Lyon, France

Emmanuel Tupin

Current address: Vironova AB, Stockholm, Sweden.

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Transgene, Lyon, France

Nathalie Silvestre

Affiliation Department of Smart Virus Lab, Transgene, Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France

Jean-Baptiste Marchand

Affiliation Department of Smart Virus Lab, Transgene, Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France

Doris Schmitt

Affiliation Department of Smart Virus Lab, Transgene, Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France

Chantal Hoffmann

Affiliation Department of Smart Virus Lab, Transgene, Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France

Murielle Klein

Affiliation Department of Smart Virus Lab, Transgene, Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France

Philip Seegren

Affiliation Department of Immunobiology, Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Maria C. Huaman

Affiliation Department of Immunobiology, Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Anthony D. Cristillo

Current address: Center for Infectious Diseases Research, Social and Scientific Systems, Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Immunobiology, Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Geneviève Inchauspé

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Transgene, Lyon, France

Competing Interests

The antigenic design of the TB recombinant viral vector described is the subject of a Transgene patent number WO2014/009438 entitled “Mycobacterial antigen vaccine”. The authors affiliated to both companies, Transgene and Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc., declare that this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL MG CC AR ET NS JM MCH ADC. Performed the experiments: MG CC AR ET JM DS CH MK PS MCH. Analyzed the data: SL MG CC AR ET NS JM DS CH MK PS MCH ADC GI. Wrote the paper: SL AR NS GI.