About the Authors

Sylvie Pillet

Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvie Pillet, Marina Lardeux

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology and Virology, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France

Marina Lardeux

Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvie Pillet, Marina Lardeux

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology and Virology, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France

Julia Dina

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, University Hospital of Caen, Caen, France

Florence Grattard

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology and Virology, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France

Paul Verhoeven

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology and Virology, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France

Jérôme Le Goff

Affiliation Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Microbiology Department, Saint-Louis Hospital, APHP, Paris, France

Astrid Vabret

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, University Hospital of Caen, Caen, France

Bruno Pozzetto

bruno.pozzetto@univ-st-etienne.fr

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology and Virology, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP FG JLG AV BP. Performed the experiments: SP ML JD FG. Analyzed the data: SP ML FG JLG AV BP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP JD FG POV AV. Wrote the paper: SP BP.