About the Authors

Jihong Li

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sameera Sayeed

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Susan Robertson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jianming Chen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bruce A. McClane

bamcc@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing issues exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL SS BAM SR. Performed the experiments: JL SS SR JC. Analyzed the data: JL SR BAM. Wrote the paper: JL BAM.