About the Authors

Elisa Ramos-Sevillano

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC) and CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain

Cinthya Rodríguez-Sosa

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Fabio Cafini

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Maria-Jose Giménez

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Ana Navarro

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

David Sevillano

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Luis Alou

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Ernesto García

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC) and CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain

Lorenzo Aguilar

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Jose Yuste

jyuste@isciii.es

Affiliations Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC) and CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

This work was supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Tedec-Meiji Farma S. A. (Madrid, Spain). Dr. Lorenzo Aguilar is a co-author of this manuscript and he is an Academic Editor for PLoS ONE.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJ-G FC DS L. Alou EG L. Aguilar JY. Performed the experiments: ER-S CR-S FC AN JY. Analyzed the data: ER-S EG L. Aguilar JY. Wrote the paper: EG L. Aguilar JY. Reviewed and approved the manuscript: ER-S CR-S FC MJ-G AN DS L. Alou EG L. Aguilar JY.