About the Authors

Jose A. G. Ferreira

Current address: School of Medicine, Faculdade da Saude e Ecologia, Vespasiano, Brazil

Affiliations California Institute for Medical Research, San Jose, California, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

John C. Penner

Current address: Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America

Affiliation California Institute for Medical Research, San Jose, California, United States of America

Richard B. Moss

Affiliation Division of Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Janus A. J. Haagensen

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Karl V. Clemons

Affiliations California Institute for Medical Research, San Jose, California, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Alfred M. Spormann

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Hasan Nazik

Affiliations California Institute for Medical Research, San Jose, California, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Medical Microbiology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

Kevin Cohen

Affiliation California Institute for Medical Research, San Jose, California, United States of America

Niaz Banaei

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Elisabete Carolino

Affiliation Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa (Lisbon School of Health Technology), Lisbon, Portugal

David A. Stevens

stevens@stanford.edu

Affiliations California Institute for Medical Research, San Jose, California, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAGF JAJH KVC AMS DAS. Performed the experiments: JAGF JCP JAJH HN KC. Analyzed the data: JAGF JCP JAJH KVC KC EC DAS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RBM AMS NB DAS. Wrote the paper: JAGF JCP RBM JAJH KVC AMS EC DAS. Statistical analyses: JAGF KVC EC DAS.