About the Authors

Jeffrey Downey

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeffrey Downey, Erwan Pernet

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University Health Centre, McGill International TB Centre, Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Erwan Pernet

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeffrey Downey, Erwan Pernet

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University Health Centre, McGill International TB Centre, Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

François Coulombe

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University Health Centre, McGill International TB Centre, Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Benoit Allard

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University Health Centre, McGill International TB Centre, Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Isabelle Meunier

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University Health Centre, McGill International TB Centre, Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Joanna Jaworska

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University Health Centre, McGill International TB Centre, Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Salman Qureshi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University Health Centre, McGill International TB Centre, Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Donald C. Vinh

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University Health Centre, McGill International TB Centre, Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

James G. Martin

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University Health Centre, McGill International TB Centre, Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Philippe Joubert

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Maziar Divangahi

maziar.divangahi@mcgill.ca

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University Health Centre, McGill International TB Centre, Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MD JD EP. Formal analysis: JD EP BA FC IM JJ PJ. Funding acquisition: MD JD EP. Investigation: JD EP FC BA IM JJ PJ. Methodology: PJ JGM MD DCV. Project administration: JD EP MD. Resources: MD JGM SQ PJ DCV. Supervision: MD. Validation: JD EP FC BA. Visualization: JD EP. Writing – original draft: JD EP MD. Writing – review & editing: JD EP MD JJ FC.