About the Authors

Toïdi Adékambi

tadekambi@gmail.com

Affiliation Mycobacteriology Laboratory Branch, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ray W. Butler

Affiliation Mycobacteriology Laboratory Branch, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Finnian Hanrahan

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Arthur L. Delcher

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Michel Drancourt

Affiliation Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, CNRS UMR 6236, IRD 198, IFR 48, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France

Thomas M. Shinnick

Affiliation Mycobacteriology Laboratory Branch, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TA MD TMS. Performed the experiments: TA RWB FH. Analyzed the data: TA RWB FH ALD MD TMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TA RWB FH ALD. Wrote the paper: TA RWB ALD MD TMS.