About the Authors

Irazú Contreras

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Centre for the Study of Host Resistance and the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

María Adelaida Gómez

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Centre for the Study of Host Resistance and the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Oliver Nguyen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Marina T. Shio

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Centre for the Study of Host Resistance and the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Robert W. McMaster

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Martin Olivier

martin.olivier@mcgill.ca

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Centre for the Study of Host Resistance and the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IC MTS MO. Performed the experiments: IC MAG ON MTS. Analyzed the data: IC MAG MO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RWM MO. Wrote the paper: IC MAG ON MTS MO.