About the Authors

Matthew C. Riley

Affiliations Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Multidrug Resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network (MRSN), US Army, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

James Eric Lee

Affiliation Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Emil Lesho

Affiliations Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Multidrug Resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network (MRSN), US Army, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Benjamin C. Kirkup Jr

bckirkup@post.harvard.edu

Affiliations Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Multidrug Resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network (MRSN), US Army, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BCK MCR JEL. Performed the experiments: MCR JEL. Analyzed the data: MCR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EL. Wrote the paper: BCK.