About the Authors

Laura J. Sherrard

Contributed equally to this work with: Laura J. Sherrard, Anna S. Tai

Affiliation Lung Bacteria Group, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Anna S. Tai

Contributed equally to this work with: Laura J. Sherrard, Anna S. Tai

Affiliations Lung Bacteria Group, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Department of Thoracic Medicine, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Western Australia Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia

Bryan A. Wee

Affiliation School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Kay A. Ramsay

Affiliations Lung Bacteria Group, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Timothy J. Kidd

Affiliations School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Centre for Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Nouri L. Ben Zakour

Affiliation School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

David M. Whiley

Affiliations UQ Centre for Clinical Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Pathology Queensland, Microbiology Department, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Scott A. Beatson

Affiliation School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Scott C. Bell

Scott.Bell@qimrberghofer.edu.au

Affiliations Lung Bacteria Group, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Department of Thoracic Medicine, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DMW SAB SCB LJS AST. Data curation: LJS AST BAW. Formal analysis: LJS BAW. Funding acquisition: SAB SCB. Investigation: LJS AST BAW KAR TJK. Methodology: LJS AST BAW NLBZ SAB. Project administration: DMW SAB SCB. Resources: SAB SCB. Software: BAW SAB. Supervision: DMW SAB SCB TJK. Validation: LJS AST BAW. Visualization: LJS BAW. Writing – original draft: LJS AST BAW. Writing – review & editing: LJS AST BAW KAR TJK NLBZ DMW SAB SCB.