About the Authors

Erin P. Price

Affiliations Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Menzies School of Health Research, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia

Julia L. Dale

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

James M. Cook

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Derek S. Sarovich

Affiliations Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Menzies School of Health Research, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia

Meagan L. Seymour

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Jennifer L. Ginther

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Emily L. Kaufman

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg

Affiliations Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Mark Mayo

Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia

Mirjam Kaestli

Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia

Mindy B. Glass

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jay E. Gee

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Vanaporn Wuthiekanun

Affiliation Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Jeffrey M. Warner

Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Anthony Baker

Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Jeffrey T. Foster

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Patrick Tan

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Apichai Tuanyok

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Direk Limmathurotsakul

Affiliation Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Sharon J. Peacock

Affiliations Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Bart J. Currie

Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia

David M. Wagner

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Paul Keim

Affiliations Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Talima Pearson

talima.pearson@nau.edu

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EPP JLD JMC SMB-S JTF DMW PK TP. Performed the experiments: EPP JLD JMC MLS JLG ELK SMB-S MM MK MBG JEG VW JMW AB PT AT DL SJP BJC. Analyzed the data: EPP JLD JMC DSS MLS MK DMW PK TP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EPP JMC DSS JLG SMB-S MM MBG JEG VW JMW AB JTF PT AT DL SJP BJC PK. Wrote the paper: EPP JLD DSS TP.