About the Authors

Alan McNally

a.mcnally@birmingham.ac.uk

Affiliations Pathogen Research Group, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Yaara Oren

Affiliation Department of Cell Research and Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Darren Kelly

Affiliation Department of Biology, National University Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

Ben Pascoe

Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Swansea, Swansea, United Kingdom

Steven Dunn

Affiliation Pathogen Research Group, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Tristan Sreecharan

Affiliation Pathogen Research Group, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Minna Vehkala

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Niko Välimäki

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Michael B. Prentice

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Amgad Ashour

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Oren Avram

Affiliation Department of Cell Research and Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Tal Pupko

Affiliation Department of Cell Research and Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Ulrich Dobrindt

Affiliation Institute of Hygiene, Universitat Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Ivan Literak

Affiliation Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, and CEITEC VFU, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic

Sebastian Guenther

Affiliation Centre for Infection Medicine, Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany

Katharina Schaufler

Affiliation Centre for Infection Medicine, Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany

Lothar H. Wieler

Affiliations Centre for Infection Medicine, Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Zong Zhiyong

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Samuel K. Sheppard

Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Swansea, Swansea, United Kingdom

James O. McInerney

Affiliations Department of Biology, National University Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Jukka Corander

Affiliations Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AM JC ZZ. Data curation: AM YO BP AA SG KS. Formal analysis: AM JC YO DK SD TS MV NV OA TP SG LHW ZZ SKS JOM. Funding acquisition: AM ZZ JC. Investigation: AM JC YO. Methodology: AM ZZ JC JOM YO SD SG. Project administration: AM ZZ JC. Resources: AM BP MBP UD IL SG LHW ZZ SKS. Supervision: AM TP ZZ JC. Visualization: AM YO DK TS JOM JC. Writing – original draft: AM YO JC JOM. Writing – review & editing: AM YO MBP TP SG LHW ZZ SKS JOM JC.