About the Authors

Cecilia T. Costiniuk

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada

Dean A. Fergusson

Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Steve Doucette

Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Jonathan B. Angel

jangel@ohri.ca

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Competing Interests

C.T.C. is an Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease of Canada Astellas Post Residency Fellowship recipient. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CTC JBA. Performed the experiments: CTC JBA. Analyzed the data: SD DAF. Wrote the paper: CTC JBA.