About the Authors

Diana Espadinha

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB), Oeiras, Portugal

Nuno A. Faria

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB), Oeiras, Portugal

Maria Miragaia

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB), Oeiras, Portugal

Luís Marques Lito

Affiliation Serviço de Patologia Clínica, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Lisboa, Portugal

José Melo-Cristino

Affiliations Serviço de Patologia Clínica, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Lisboa, Portugal, Instituto de Microbiologia, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Hermínia de Lencastre

lencash@mail.rockfeller.edu.

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB), Oeiras, Portugal, Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, United States of America

Médicos Sentinela Network

Membership of the “Médicos Sentinela Network” is provided in the Acknowledgments

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Revised the manuscript: HdL MM NF. Conceived and designed the experiments: NF MM LML JMC HdL. Performed the experiments: DE. Analyzed the data: NF MM HdL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DE NF MM LML JMC HdL. Wrote the paper: DE.