About the Authors

Leandro E. Garcia

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Zitong Lin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

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

Sophie Culos

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

M. Catherine Muenker

Roles Investigation

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

Emily E. Johnson

Roles Investigation

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

Zheng Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Francesc Lopez-Giraldez

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Yale Center for Genomic Analysis, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Alexandre Giraud-Gatineau

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR, Biology of Spirochetes Unit, Paris, France

Angela M. Jackson

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Victoria Genome BC Proteomic Center, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Mathieu Picardeau

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR, Biology of Spirochetes Unit, Paris, France

David R. Goodlett

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, University of Victoria Genome BC Proteomic Center, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Jeffrey P. Townsend

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Helena Pětrošová

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, University of Victoria Genome BC Proteomic Center, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Elsio A. Wunder Jr

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

elsio.wunder@uconn.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazilian Ministry of Health, Salvador, Brazil

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: DRG is a co-founder and a vice president of Patagain, a company that develops mass spectrometry-based microbiology tests to identify pathogens and determine antimicrobial resistance. The company was not involved in the development of this work or the analysis and interpretation of the results. The other authors acknowledge no competing interests while working and preparing this manuscript.