About the Authors

Nicolas Dreux

Affiliation M2iSH, UMR1071 Inserm, Université d'Auvergne, USC-INRA 2018, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Jérémy Denizot

Affiliation M2iSH, UMR1071 Inserm, Université d'Auvergne, USC-INRA 2018, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Margarita Martinez-Medina

Affiliation M2iSH, UMR1071 Inserm, Université d'Auvergne, USC-INRA 2018, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Alexander Mellmann

Affiliation Institute of Hygiene, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

Maria Billig

Affiliation University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Dagmara Kisiela

Affiliation University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sujay Chattopadhyay

Affiliation University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Evgeni Sokurenko

Affiliation University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Christel Neut

Affiliation Inserm U995, Université Lille II, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille, France

Corinne Gower-Rousseau

Affiliation Inserm U995, Université Lille II, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille, France

Jean-Frédéric Colombel

Affiliation Inserm U995, Université Lille II, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille, France

Richard Bonnet

Affiliations M2iSH, UMR1071 Inserm, Université d'Auvergne, USC-INRA 2018, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Service de Bactériologie, CHU, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Arlette Darfeuille-Michaud

Affiliations M2iSH, UMR1071 Inserm, Université d'Auvergne, USC-INRA 2018, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Service de Bactériologie, CHU, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Institut Universitaire de Technologie, Génie Biologique, Aubière, France

Nicolas Barnich

nicolas.barnich@u-clermont1.fr

Affiliations M2iSH, UMR1071 Inserm, Université d'Auvergne, USC-INRA 2018, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Institut Universitaire de Technologie, Génie Biologique, Aubière, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ND AM ADM NB. Performed the experiments: ND JD MMM MB SC DK. Analyzed the data: ND ES RB ADM NB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ES RB CN JFC CGR. Wrote the paper: ND JD ES ADM NB.