A virulence-associated filamentous bacteriophage of Neisseria meningitidis increases host-cell colonisation

• Emmanuelle Bille ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuelle Bille, Julie Meyer

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: emmanuelle.bille@inserm.fr

  Affiliations Institut Necker-Enfants Malades, INSERM U1151, CNRS UMR 8253, Paris, France, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France, Service de Microbiologie, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9172-0510

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• Julie Meyer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuelle Bille, Julie Meyer

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Institut Necker-Enfants Malades, INSERM U1151, CNRS UMR 8253, Paris, France, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6144-927X

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• Anne Jamet,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institut Necker-Enfants Malades, INSERM U1151, CNRS UMR 8253, Paris, France, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France, Service de Microbiologie, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

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• Daniel Euphrasie,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Institut Necker-Enfants Malades, INSERM U1151, CNRS UMR 8253, Paris, France, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

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• Jean-Philippe Barnier,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Institut Necker-Enfants Malades, INSERM U1151, CNRS UMR 8253, Paris, France, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France, Service de Microbiologie, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0603-6755

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• Terry Brissac,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

  Affiliations Institut Necker-Enfants Malades, INSERM U1151, CNRS UMR 8253, Paris, France, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2549-4479

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• Anna Larsen,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Institut Necker-Enfants Malades, INSERM U1151, CNRS UMR 8253, Paris, France, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6681-4099

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• Philippe Pelissier,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Service de Chirurgie Reconstructrice et Plastique, Fondation Hôpital Saint Joseph, Paris, France

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• Xavier Nassif

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institut Necker-Enfants Malades, INSERM U1151, CNRS UMR 8253, Paris, France, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France, Service de Microbiologie, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

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