About the Authors

Phillip S. Pang

Contributed equally to this work with: Phillip S. Pang, Paul J. Planet

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Paul J. Planet

Contributed equally to this work with: Phillip S. Pang, Paul J. Planet

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and, Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Jeffrey S. Glenn

jeffrey.glenn@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine and the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Medical Center, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PSP PJP. Performed the experiments: PSP PJP. Analyzed the data: PSP PJP JSG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PSP PJP JSG. Wrote the paper: PSP PJP JSG.