About the Authors

Stephanie P. Jehl

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Catarina V. Nogueira

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xuqing Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael N. Starnbach

starnbach@hms.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SPJ MNS. Performed the experiments: SPJ CVN XZ. Analyzed the data: SPJ MNS CVN XZ. Wrote the paper: SPJ MNS.