About the Authors

Frédéric J. Veyrier

frederic.veyrier@pasteur.fr

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Infection Bactériennes Invasives, Dept. Infection et Epidémiologie, Paris, France, Institut Pasteur, Groupe Biologie et génétique de la paroi bactérienne, Dept. Microbiologie, Paris, France, INSERM, Groupe Avenir, Paris, France, INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, Quebec, Canada

Ivo G. Boneca

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Groupe Biologie et génétique de la paroi bactérienne, Dept. Microbiologie, Paris, France, INSERM, Groupe Avenir, Paris, France

Mathieu F. Cellier

Affiliation INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, Quebec, Canada

Muhamed-Kheir Taha

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Infection Bactériennes Invasives, Dept. Infection et Epidémiologie, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FJV IGB MFC MKT. Performed the experiments: FJV MKT. Analyzed the data: FJV IGB MFC MKT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FJV MKT IGB MFC. Wrote the paper: FJV MKT MFC IGB.