About the Authors

Christopher R. E. McEvoy

cmcevoy@unimelb.edu.au

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Affiliation Department of Science and Technology, National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, Medical Research Council Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa

Ruben Cloete

Current address: South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

Affiliation Department of Science and Technology, National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, Medical Research Council Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa

Borna Müller

Affiliation Department of Science and Technology, National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, Medical Research Council Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa

Anita C. Schürch

Affiliation Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, (CIb/LIS, pb 22), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Paul D. van Helden

Affiliation Department of Science and Technology, National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, Medical Research Council Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa

Sebastien Gagneux

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Division of Mycobacterial Research, Medical Research Council, National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

Robin M. Warren

Affiliation Department of Science and Technology, National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, Medical Research Council Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa

Nicolaas C. Gey van Pittius

Affiliation Department of Science and Technology, National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, Medical Research Council Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CREM NGvP RMW SG PDvH. Performed the experiments: CREM RC BM. Analyzed the data: CREM NGvP AS BM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NGvP PDvH RMW SG. Wrote the paper: CREM NGvP.