About the Authors

Emmanuel E. Comoy

emmanuel.comoy@cea.fr

Affiliation Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapies, CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

Cristina Casalone

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Turin, Italy

Nathalie Lescoutra-Etchegaray

Affiliation Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapies, CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

Gianluigi Zanusso

Affiliation Policlinico G.B. Rossi, Verona, Italy

Sophie Freire

Affiliation Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapies, CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

Dominique Marcé

Affiliation Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapies, CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

Frédéric Auvré

Affiliation Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapies, CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

Marie-Magdeleine Ruchoux

Affiliation Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapies, CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

Sergio Ferrari

Affiliation Policlinico G.B. Rossi, Verona, Italy

Salvatore Monaco

Affiliation Policlinico G.B. Rossi, Verona, Italy

Nicole Salès

Affiliation Scripps Florida, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America

Maria Caramelli

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Turin, Italy

Philippe Leboulch

Affiliations Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapies, CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France, Genetics Division, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul Brown

Affiliation Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapies, CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

Corinne I. Lasmézas

Affiliation Scripps Florida, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America

Jean-Philippe Deslys

Affiliation Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapies, CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

Competing Interests

CEA owns a patent covering the BSE diagnostic tests commercialized by the company Bio-Rad.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC CIL. Performed the experiments: NLE SF DM FA. Analyzed the data: EEC NLE MMR SF JPD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC GZ MMR MC. Wrote the paper: EEC GZ PB JPD. Participated to the final reviewing of the manuscript: CC SM NS MC PL CIL.