About the Authors
- Sean M. Rollins
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* E-mail: srollins1@partners.org
Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Amanda Peppercorn
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Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- John S. Young
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Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Melissa Drysdale
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Affiliations University of New Mexico Health Science Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Andrea Baresch
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Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Margaret V. Bikowski
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Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- David A. Ashford
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Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Conrad P. Quinn
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Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Martin Handfield
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Affiliation Center for Molecular Microbiology and Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Jeffrey D. Hillman
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Affiliation Oragenics Inc, Alachua, Florida, United States of America
- C. Rick Lyons
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Affiliation University of New Mexico Health Science Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
- Theresa M. Koehler
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Stephen B. Calderwood
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Affiliations Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Edward T. Ryan
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Affiliations Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SC TK ER SR AP MD MH JH. Performed the experiments: SR AP JY MD AB MB. Analyzed the data: SC TK ER SR AP JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK SR CL CQ DA. Wrote the paper: ER SR.