Jean-Philippe Lavigne is Professor of Microbiology, Head of the Department of Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, University Hospital of Nîmes and University of Montpellier (France), director of the National Reference Center of Brucellosis, and Coordinator of the team Microbiota and chronic infections in Bacterial Virulence and Chronic Infections INSERM U1047, Nîmes. JPL participates in the Diabetic