About the Authors

Andrea von Groll

avongrol@hotmail.com

Affiliation Mycobacteriology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Anandi Martin

Affiliation Mycobacteriology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Matthias Stehr

Affiliation Department of Genome Analysis, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunswcheig, Germany

Mahavir Singh

Affiliation Department of Genome Analysis, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunswcheig, Germany

Françoise Portaels

Affiliation Mycobacteriology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Pedro Eduardo Almeida da Silva

Affiliation Laboratory of Mycobacteriology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brazil

Juan Carlos Palomino

Affiliation Mycobacteriology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AvG AM MS MS FP PEAdS JP. Performed the experiments: AvG AM MS. Analyzed the data: AvG AM MS MS PEAdS JP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS FP PEAdS JP. Wrote the paper: AvG AM JP.