About the Authors

Gilles Vanderstocken

Affiliation The Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, IRIBHM, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Els Van de Paar

Affiliation The Department of Pathology, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium

Bernard Robaye

Affiliation The Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, IRIBHM, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium

Larissa di Pietrantonio

Affiliation The Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, IRIBHM, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Benjamin Bondue

Affiliations The Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, IRIBHM, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, The Department of Pneumology, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Jean-Marie Boeynaems

Affiliations The Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, IRIBHM, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, The Department of Laboratory Medicine, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Daniel Desmecht

Affiliation The Department of Pathology, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium

Didier Communi

communid@ulb.ac.be

Affiliation The Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, IRIBHM, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GV DD DC. Performed the experiments: GV EVdP BR LdP BB. Analyzed the data: GV EVdP BB JMB DD DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GV EVdP BR DD DC. Wrote the paper: GV JMB DD DC.