About the Authors

Holly R. Ramage

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Program in Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lynn E. Connolly

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Program in Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jeffery S. Cox

Jeffery.Cox@ucsf.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Program in Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HRR LEC JSC. Performed the experiments: HRR LEC. Analyzed the data: HRR LEC JSC. Wrote the paper: HRR LEC JSC.