JAMES MATSUNAGA • Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA,
Los Angeles, CA, USA; Research Service, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare
System, Los Angeles, CA, USA
MD A. MOTALEB • Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine,
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
CLE ´ MENCE MOUVILLE • Unite ´ de Biologie des Spiroche `tes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
SHUICHI NAKAMURA • Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering,
Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
ANA L. T. O. NASCIMENTO • Laboratorio de Desenvolvimento de Vacinas—Centro de
Biotecnologia, Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil
CHRISTOPHER J. PAPPAS • Department of Biology, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY,
USA
MATHIEU PICARDEAU • Unite ´ de Biologie des Spiroche `tes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
JEAN REYES • Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Saint-Priest, France
OLIVIER SCHIETTEKATTE • Unite ´ de Biologie des Spiroche `tes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France;
Ecole doctorale BioSPC, Universite ´ Paris Diderot, Paris, France
MARIE-ESTELLE SOUPE ´ -GILBERT • Leptospirosis Research and Expertise Unit, Institut Pasteur
in New Caledonia, Institut Pasteur International Network, Noumea, New Caledonia
TOSHIHIKO SUZUKI • Department of Bacterial Pathogenesis, Infection and Host Response,
Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University,
Tokyo, Japan
ALINE F. TEIXEIRA • Laboratorio de Desenvolvimento de Vacinas—Centro de Biotecnologia,
Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil
ROMAN THIBEAUX • Leptospirosis Research and Expertise Unit, Institut Pasteur in New
Caledonia, Institut Pasteur International Network, Noumea, New Caledonia
CLAUDIA TOMA • Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the
Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan
FRE ´ DE ´ RIQUE VERNEL-PAUILLAC • Biology and Genetic of the Bacterial Cell Wall Unit, Innate
Immunity and Leptospira Group, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
CATHERINE WERTS • Biology and Genetic of the Bacterial Cell Wall Unit, Innate Immunity
and Leptospira Group, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
ELSIO A. WUNDER JR • Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of
Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
HUI XU • Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East
Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
CRISPIN ZAVALA-ALVARADO • Unite ´ de Biologie des Spiroche `tes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Los Angeles, CA, USA; Research Service, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare
System, Los Angeles, CA, USA
MD A. MOTALEB • Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine,
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
CLE ´ MENCE MOUVILLE • Unite ´ de Biologie des Spiroche `tes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
SHUICHI NAKAMURA • Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering,
Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
ANA L. T. O. NASCIMENTO • Laboratorio de Desenvolvimento de Vacinas—Centro de
Biotecnologia, Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil
CHRISTOPHER J. PAPPAS • Department of Biology, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY,
USA
MATHIEU PICARDEAU • Unite ´ de Biologie des Spiroche `tes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
JEAN REYES • Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Saint-Priest, France
OLIVIER SCHIETTEKATTE • Unite ´ de Biologie des Spiroche `tes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France;
Ecole doctorale BioSPC, Universite ´ Paris Diderot, Paris, France
MARIE-ESTELLE SOUPE ´ -GILBERT • Leptospirosis Research and Expertise Unit, Institut Pasteur
in New Caledonia, Institut Pasteur International Network, Noumea, New Caledonia
TOSHIHIKO SUZUKI • Department of Bacterial Pathogenesis, Infection and Host Response,
Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University,
Tokyo, Japan
ALINE F. TEIXEIRA • Laboratorio de Desenvolvimento de Vacinas—Centro de Biotecnologia,
Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil
ROMAN THIBEAUX • Leptospirosis Research and Expertise Unit, Institut Pasteur in New
Caledonia, Institut Pasteur International Network, Noumea, New Caledonia
CLAUDIA TOMA • Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the
Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan
FRE ´ DE ´ RIQUE VERNEL-PAUILLAC • Biology and Genetic of the Bacterial Cell Wall Unit, Innate
Immunity and Leptospira Group, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
CATHERINE WERTS • Biology and Genetic of the Bacterial Cell Wall Unit, Innate Immunity
and Leptospira Group, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
ELSIO A. WUNDER JR • Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of
Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
HUI XU • Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East
Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
CRISPIN ZAVALA-ALVARADO • Unite ´ de Biologie des Spiroche `tes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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