About the Authors

Yoshan Moodley

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshan Moodley, Bodo Linz

yoshan.moodley@vetmeduni.ac.at (YM); bxl29@psu.edu (BL); m.achtman@ucc.ie (MA)

Affiliations Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie, Department of Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology, Department of Integrative Biology and Evolution, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Bodo Linz

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshan Moodley, Bodo Linz

yoshan.moodley@vetmeduni.ac.at (YM); bxl29@psu.edu (BL); m.achtman@ucc.ie (MA)

Affiliations Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie, Department of Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert P. Bond

Affiliation Hepatology and GI-Research Laboratory, Department of Immunology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Martin Nieuwoudt

Affiliation Hepatology and GI-Research Laboratory, Department of Immunology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Himla Soodyall

Affiliation Human Genomic Diversity and Disease Research Unit, Division of Human Genetics, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand/National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa

Carina M. Schlebusch

Affiliation Human Genomic Diversity and Disease Research Unit, Division of Human Genetics, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand/National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa

Steffi Bernhöft

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie, Department of Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany

James Hale

Affiliation Environmental Research Institute and Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Sebastian Suerbaum

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Lawrence Mugisha

Affiliation Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Entebbe, Uganda

Schalk W. van der Merwe

Affiliation Hepatology and GI-Research Laboratory, Department of Immunology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Mark Achtman

yoshan.moodley@vetmeduni.ac.at (YM); bxl29@psu.edu (BL); m.achtman@ucc.ie (MA)

Affiliations Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie, Department of Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany, Environmental Research Institute and Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SWVM MA SS BL YM HS LM. Performed the experiments: SB BL SWVM LM CMS JH SS MN RPB. Analyzed the data: YM BL CMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA SWVM SS HS. Wrote the paper: YM MA BL.