About the Authors

Andrew Hollands

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, The Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, The University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Ramy K. Aziz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Rita Kansal

Affiliation The VA Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Malak Kotb

Affiliations The VA Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, The Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, The University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Victor Nizet

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Mark J. Walker

mwalker@uow.edu.au

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH VN MJW. Performed the experiments: AH RKA RK. Analyzed the data: AH RKA RK MK VN MJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RKA RK. Wrote the paper: AH MK VN MJW.