About the Authors

Sarah L. Noton

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah L. Noton, Laure R. Deflubé

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laure R. Deflubé

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah L. Noton, Laure R. Deflubé

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Chadene Z. Tremaglio

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rachel Fearns

rfearns@bu.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SLN LRD CZT RF. Performed the experiments: SLN LRD CZT. Analyzed the data: SLN LRD CZT RF. Wrote the paper: SLN RF.