About the Authors

Saeed Sharif

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Yoshio Nakatani

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Lyn Wise

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Michael Corbett

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Nicola C. Real

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Gabriella S. Stuart

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Zabeen Lateef

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Kurt Krause

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Andrew A. Mercer

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Stephen B. Fleming

stephen.fleming@otago.ac.nz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SF LW SS. Formal analysis: SS YN LW. Funding acquisition: AA SF YN KK. Investigation: SS LW NR GS YN ZL MC. Methodology: SS YN NR GS ZL. Project administration: SF. Resources: SF AA. Supervision: SF AA. Validation: SS ZL. Visualization: SS SF LW YN. Writing – original draft: SS SF LW YN. Writing – review & editing: SF SS LW AM YN KK.