About the Authors

Karen V. Evangelista

Current address: VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America; Department of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Affiliation Graduate Program in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Beth Hahn

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Elsio A. Wunder Jr

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Albert I. Ko

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

David A. Haake

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Departments of Medicine, Urology, and Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jenifer Coburn

jcoburn@mcw.edu

Affiliations Graduate Program in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KVE JC. Performed the experiments: KVE BH. Analyzed the data: KVE JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AIK EAW DAH. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: KVE JC.