About the Authors

Jean-Marie Pages

Jean-Marie.PAGES@univmed.fr

Affiliation UMR-MD-1, Facultés de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Université de la Méditerranée, IFR88, Marseille, France

Jean-Philippe Lavigne

Affiliation UMR-MD-1, Facultés de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Université de la Méditerranée, IFR88, Marseille, France

Véronique Leflon-Guibout

Affiliation AP-HP, Hôpital Beaujon, Service de Microbiologie, Clichy, France

Estelle Marcon

Affiliation AP-HP, Hôpital Beaujon, Service de Microbiologie, Clichy, France

Frédéric Bert

Affiliation AP-HP, Hôpital Beaujon, Service de Microbiologie, Clichy, France

Latifa Noussair

Affiliation AP-HP, Hôpital Beaujon, Service de Microbiologie, Clichy, France

Marie-Hélène Nicolas-Chanoine

Affiliations AP-HP, Hôpital Beaujon, Service de Microbiologie, Clichy, France, INSERM U 773, Centre de Recherche Biomédicale Bichat-Beaujon, CRB3, Université D. Diderot, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMP JPL MHNC. Performed the experiments: JPL VLG EM FB LN. Analyzed the data: JMP JPL FB MHNC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VLG EM FB LN. Wrote the paper: JMP MHNC. Critically revised the paper: JPL. Revised the paper: VLG.