About the Authors

Ravi V. Kolla

Affiliation Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Suresh Chintalapati

Affiliation Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Mojgan Sabet

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Eugenio Santelli

Affiliation Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Robert C. Liddington

Affiliation Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Michael David

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Joshua Fierer

Affiliation Department of Medicine, San Diego Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, California, United States of America

Donald Guiney

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Robert C. Rickert

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: robert@burnham.org

Affiliation Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MD DG RR SC MS RK. Performed the experiments: SC MS RK. Analyzed the data: MD DG RL RR SC MS RK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JF RL ES. Wrote the paper: RR RK.