About the Authors

Ouafae Lahlou

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Institute of Hygiene, Rabat, Morocco

Julie Millet

Affiliation WHO Supranational TB Reference Laboratory, Unité de la Tuberculose et des Mycobactéries, Institut Pasteur de Guadeloupe, Abymes, Guadeloupe, France

Imane Chaoui

Affiliation Biology and Medical Research Unit, National Centre of Energy, Nuclear Sciences and Techniques, Rabat, Morocco

Radia Sabouni

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Institute of Hygiene, Rabat, Morocco

Abdelkarim Filali-Maltouf

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco

Mohammed Akrim

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Institute of Hygiene, Rabat, Morocco

Mohammed El Mzibri

Affiliation Biology and Medical Research Unit, National Centre of Energy, Nuclear Sciences and Techniques, Rabat, Morocco

Nalin Rastogi

nrastogi@pasteur-guadeloupe.fr

Affiliation WHO Supranational TB Reference Laboratory, Unité de la Tuberculose et des Mycobactéries, Institut Pasteur de Guadeloupe, Abymes, Guadeloupe, France

Rajae El Aouad

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Institute of Hygiene, Rabat, Morocco

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OL IC NR REA. Performed the experiments: OL JM IC RS MA. Analyzed the data: OL JM IC RS MA NR REA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OL IC AFM MEM NR REA. Wrote the paper: OL JM NR REA. Data entry and comparison using the SITVIT2 proprietary database of Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe: NR.