About the Authors

Darin L. Wiesner

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Charles A. Specht

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts

Chrono K. Lee

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts

Kyle D. Smith

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Liliane Mukaremera

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

S. Thera Lee

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Chun G. Lee

Affiliation Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

Jack A. Elias

Affiliation Warren Alpert Medical School, Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Judith N. Nielsen

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

David R. Boulware

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Paul R. Bohjanen

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Marc K. Jenkins

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Stuart M. Levitz

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts

Kirsten Nielsen

knielsen@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DLW KN. Performed the experiments: DLW CAS CKL KDS LM STL JNN. Analyzed the data: DLW LM JNN KN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CAS CGL JAE DRB MKJ SML. Wrote the paper: DLW CAS KDS LM JNN PRB DRB MKJ SML KN.