About the Authors

Seung-Joo Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Seung-Joo Lee, James B. McLachlan

Affiliation Center for Comparative Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

James B. McLachlan

Contributed equally to this work with: Seung-Joo Lee, James B. McLachlan

Affiliations Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Tulane University Health Science Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Jonathan R. Kurtz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Tulane University Health Science Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Danhua Fan

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Sebastian E. Winter

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Andreas J. Baumler

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Marc K. Jenkins

Affiliation Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Stephen J. McSorley

sjmcsorley@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Center for Comparative Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJM MKJ. Performed the experiments: SJL JBM JRK SEW. Analyzed the data: SJL JBM JRK DF SEW AJB MKJ SJM. Wrote the paper: SJM SJL JBM.