About the Authors

Rodolphe Pontier-Bres

Affiliations INSERM, U895, Centre Méditerranéen de Médecine Moléculaire (C3M), Equipe Inflammation, Cancer, Cellules Souches Cancéreuses, Nice, France, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, UFR Médecine, IFR50, Faculté de Médecine, Nice, France

François Prodon

Affiliations INSERM, U895, Centre Méditerranéen de Médecine Moléculaire (C3M), Equipe Inflammation, Cancer, Cellules Souches Cancéreuses, Nice, France, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, UFR Médecine, IFR50, Faculté de Médecine, Nice, France

Patrick Munro

Affiliations Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, UFR Médecine, IFR50, Faculté de Médecine, Nice, France, INSERM, U895, Centre Méditerranéen de Médecine Moléculaire (C3M), Equipe Toxines microbiennes dans la relation hôte-pathogènes, France

Patrick Rampal

Affiliation Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace, Service d'Hépato-Gastro-Entérologie, Monaco

Emmanuel Lemichez

Affiliations Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, UFR Médecine, IFR50, Faculté de Médecine, Nice, France, INSERM, U895, Centre Méditerranéen de Médecine Moléculaire (C3M), Equipe Toxines microbiennes dans la relation hôte-pathogènes, France

Jean François Peyron

Affiliations INSERM, U895, Centre Méditerranéen de Médecine Moléculaire (C3M), Equipe Inflammation, Cancer, Cellules Souches Cancéreuses, Nice, France, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, UFR Médecine, IFR50, Faculté de Médecine, Nice, France, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Service de Pédiatrie, Hôpital de l'Archet, Nice, France, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Service d'Hématologie Clinique, Hôpital de l'Archet, Nice, France

Dorota Czerucka

czerucka@unice.fr

Affiliations INSERM, U895, Centre Méditerranéen de Médecine Moléculaire (C3M), Equipe Inflammation, Cancer, Cellules Souches Cancéreuses, Nice, France, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, UFR Médecine, IFR50, Faculté de Médecine, Nice, France

Competing Interests

DC has acted as scientific advisor to BIOCODEX S.A. (Gentilly, France); she has also received a travel grant from them. PR acts as an expert for Biocodex S.A. and received travel grant from them. RPB's and DC's salaries are paid by a non-profit association sponsored by Biocodex. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DC PR JFP. Performed the experiments: RPB DC. Analyzed the data: RPB FP PM EL DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FP. Wrote the paper: DC. Revised the manuscript: PM EL JFP.