About the Authors

Jiangchao Zhao

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and Communicable Disease, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Lisa A. Carmody

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and Communicable Disease, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Linda M. Kalikin

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and Communicable Disease, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Jun Li

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Joseph F. Petrosino

Affiliations Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, United States of America, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Patrick D. Schloss

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Vincent B. Young

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases Division, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

John J. LiPuma

jlipuma@umich.edu

Affiliations Departments of Pediatrics and Communicable Disease, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZ LAC LMK JL PDS VBY JJL. Performed the experiments: JZ LAC JFP. Analyzed the data: JZ JL PDS VBY JJL. Wrote the paper: JZ LAC LMK JJL.