About the Authors

Kimberly L. Carey

Contributed equally to this work with: Kimberly L. Carey, Hayley J. Newton

Affiliation Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Hayley J. Newton

Contributed equally to this work with: Kimberly L. Carey, Hayley J. Newton

Affiliation Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Anja Lührmann

Affiliations Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Microbiology Institute, University Clinic Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Craig R. Roy

craig.roy@yale.edu

Affiliation Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HJN KLC CRR. Performed the experiments: HJN KLC. Analyzed the data: HJN KLC AL CRR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJN KLC AL. Wrote the paper: HJN KLC CRR.