About the Authors

Kathleen Romanowski

Contributed equally to this work with: Kathleen Romanowski, Alexander Zaborin

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Alexander Zaborin

Contributed equally to this work with: Kathleen Romanowski, Alexander Zaborin

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Vesta Valuckaite

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ronda J. Rolfes

Affiliation Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Trissa Babrowski

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Cindy Bethel

Affiliation Clinical Microbiology/Immunology Laboratories, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Andrea Olivas

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Olga Zaborina

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

John C. Alverdy

jalverdy@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCA OZ. Performed the experiments: KR AZ VV RJR TB CB AO OZ. Analyzed the data: KR AZ VV RJR TB CB AO OZ JCA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RJR. Wrote the paper: JCA OZ RJR.