About the Authors

Manal Helal

Affiliations Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney West Area Health Service, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Fanrong Kong

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney West Area Health Service, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sharon C. A. Chen

Affiliations Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney West Area Health Service, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Michael Bain

Affiliation School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Richard Christen

Affiliation University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, and CNRS UMR6543, Parc Valrose, Centre de Biochimie, Nice, France

Vitali Sintchenko

vitali.sintchenko@swahs.health.nsw.gov.au

Affiliations Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney West Area Health Service, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH FK SCAC VS. Performed the experiments: MH FK MB RC. Analyzed the data: MH FK SCAC MB RC VS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH FK MB RC. Wrote the paper: MH VS MB SCAC. Designed the software used in the analysis: MH.