About the Authors
- Paula Ristow
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Affiliations Unité de Biologie des Spirochètes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Goes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Pascale Bourhy
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Affiliation Unité de Biologie des Spirochètes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- Flávia Weykamp da Cruz McBride
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Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
- Claudio Pereira Figueira
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Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
- Michel Huerre
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Affiliation Unité de Recherche et d'Expertise Histotechnologie et Pathologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- Patrick Ave
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Affiliation Unité de Recherche et d'Expertise Histotechnologie et Pathologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- Isabelle Saint Girons
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Affiliation Unité de Biologie des Spirochètes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- Albert I Ko
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Affiliations Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Goes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Division of International Medicine and Infectious Disease, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Mathieu Picardeau
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mpicard@pasteur.fr
Affiliation Unité de Biologie des Spirochètes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
PR, PB, MH, ISG, AIK, and MP conceived and designed the experiments. PR, PB, FWdCM, CPF, PA, and MP performed the experiments. PR, AIK, and MP wrote the paper.