About the Authors

John P. Jerome

Affiliations Comparative Enteric Diseases Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Julia A. Bell

Affiliation Comparative Enteric Diseases Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Anne E. Plovanich-Jones

Affiliation Comparative Enteric Diseases Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Jeffrey E. Barrick

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

C. Titus Brown

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Linda S. Mansfield

mansfie4@cvm.msu.edu

Affiliations Comparative Enteric Diseases Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPJ LSM JAB AEPJ. Performed the experiments: JPJ. Analyzed the data: JPJ JEB CTB. Wrote the paper: JPJ LSM.