About the Authors

Alexander J. Meeske

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander J. Meeske, Christopher D. A. Rodrigues

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

Christopher D. A. Rodrigues

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander J. Meeske, Christopher D. A. Rodrigues

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

Jacqueline Brady

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

Hoong Chuin Lim

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

Thomas G. Bernhardt

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

David Z. Rudner

rudner@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: AJM CDAR DZR. Performed the experiments: AJM CDAR JB. Analyzed the data: AJM CDAR JB HCL DZR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJM CDAR JB HCL TGB DZR. Wrote the paper: AJM CDAR JB HCL TGB DZR.