About the Authors

Katherine R. Hargreaves

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Andrew M. Kropinski

Affiliations Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Public Health Agency of Canada, West Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Martha R. J. Clokie

mrjc1@leicester.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Phage CDHM1 is included as part of a patent application no 1215184.1. The full patent name is Therapeutic phage No. PCT/GB2013/052245. 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: KRH MRJC AMK. Performed the experiments: KRH AMK. Analyzed the data: KRH MRJC AMK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KRH MRJC AMK. Wrote the paper: KRH MRJC AMK.