About the Authors

Marie Ragon

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Laboratoire des Listeria, Paris, France, Institut Pasteur, Centre National de Référence des Listeria and World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Foodborne Listeriosis, Paris, France

Thierry Wirth

Affiliation Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Department of Systematics and Evolution, Paris, France

Florian Hollandt

Affiliation Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Department of Systematics and Evolution, Paris, France

Rachel Lavenir

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Genotyping of Pathogens and Public Health Platform (PF8), Paris, France

Marc Lecuit

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Centre National de Référence des Listeria and World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Foodborne Listeriosis, Paris, France, Institut Pasteur, Microbes and Host Barriers Group, Paris, France, Inserm, Avenir U604, Paris, France, Université Paris Descartes, Hôpital Necker-Enfants malades, Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Centre d'Infectiologie Necker-Pasteur, Paris, France

Alban Le Monnier

alban.le-monnier@u-psud.fr (ALM); sbrisse@pasteur.fr (SB)

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Laboratoire des Listeria, Paris, France, Institut Pasteur, Centre National de Référence des Listeria and World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Foodborne Listeriosis, Paris, France

Sylvain Brisse

alban.le-monnier@u-psud.fr (ALM); sbrisse@pasteur.fr (SB)

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Genotyping of Pathogens and Public Health Platform (PF8), Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ALM SB. Performed the experiments: MR RL. Analyzed the data: MR TW FH SB. Wrote the paper: MR TW FH ML ALM SB.