About the Authors

Rafik Menasria

Affiliation Research Center in Infectious Diseases, CHU of Quebec Research Center, Department of microbiology-immunology and infectious diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada

Coraline Canivet

Affiliation Research Center in Infectious Diseases, CHU of Quebec Research Center, Department of microbiology-immunology and infectious diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada

Jocelyne Piret

Affiliation Research Center in Infectious Diseases, CHU of Quebec Research Center, Department of microbiology-immunology and infectious diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada

Jean Gosselin

Affiliation Laboratory of Innate Immunity, CHU of Quebec Research Center, Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada

Guy Boivin

Guy.Boivin@crchudequebec.ulaval.ca

Affiliation Research Center in Infectious Diseases, CHU of Quebec Research Center, Department of microbiology-immunology and infectious diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RM JP GB. Data curation: RM CC. Formal analysis: RM CC. Funding acquisition: JP JG GB. Investigation: RM CC. Methodology: RM. Project administration: RM JP JG GB. Resources: GB. Supervision: JP GB. Validation: RM JP GB. Visualization: RM. Writing – original draft: RM CC. Writing – review & editing: JP GB.