About the Authors

Jesús Gonzalo-Asensio

Affiliations Grupo de Genética de Micobacterias, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, Mallorca, Illes Balears, Spain

Serge Mostowy

Current address: Unité des interactions Bactéries-Cellules, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Canada

Jose Harders-Westerveen

Affiliation Central Veterinary Institute, Lelystad, The Netherlands

Kris Huygen

Affiliation WIV-Pasteur Institute Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

Rogelio Hernández-Pando

Affiliation Experimental Pathology Section, Department of Pathology, National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition “Salvador Zubiràn”, Mexico City, Mexico

Jelle Thole

Affiliation TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative, Lelystad, The Netherlands

Marcel Behr

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Canada

Brigitte Gicquel

Affiliation Unité de Génétique Mycobactérienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Carlos Martín

carlos@unizar.es

Affiliations Grupo de Genética de Micobacterias, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, Mallorca, Illes Balears, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAGA JT MB BG CM. Performed the experiments: JAGA SM JHW KH RHP. Analyzed the data: JAGA SM JT MB BG CM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAGA JT MB CM. Wrote the paper: JAGA CM.