About the Authors

Françoise Guinet

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: fguinet@pasteur.fr

Affiliation Unité des Yersinia, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Patrick Avé

Affiliation Unité de Recherche et d'Expertise d'Histotechnologie et Pathologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Louis Jones

Affiliation Groupe Logiciels et Banques de Données, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Michel Huerre

Affiliation Unité de Recherche et d'Expertise d'Histotechnologie et Pathologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Elisabeth Carniel

Affiliation Unité des Yersinia, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EC FG. Performed the experiments: PA FG. Analyzed the data: EC LJ MH FG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LJ MH. Wrote the paper: EC FG.