About the Authors

Shaun Steele

Contributed equally to this work with: Shaun Steele, Jason Brunton

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jason Brunton

Contributed equally to this work with: Shaun Steele, Jason Brunton

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Benjamin Ziehr

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Sharon Taft-Benz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Nathaniel Moorman

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Thomas Kawula

Kawula@med.unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS JB NM TK. Performed the experiments: SS JB BZ STB. Analyzed the data: SS JB BZ STB NM TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK NM. Wrote the paper: SS JB TK.