About the Authors

Claudia Trappetti

Affiliation Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Abiodun D. Ogunniyi

david.ogunniyi@adelaide.edu.au

Affiliation Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Marco R. Oggioni

Affiliation Laboratorio di Microbiologia Molecolare e Biotecnologia, Dipartimento di Biologia Molecolare, Università di Siena, Siena, Italy

James C. Paton

Affiliation Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CT ADO MRO JCP. Performed the experiments: CT ADO. Analyzed the data: CT ADO MRO JCP. Wrote the paper: CT ADO MRO JCP.