About the Authors

Claire Marie Filone

Contributed equally to this work with: Claire Marie Filone, Sheri L. Hanna

Current address: United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sheri L. Hanna

Contributed equally to this work with: Claire Marie Filone, Sheri L. Hanna

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

M. Cecilia Caino

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shelly Bambina

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert W. Doms

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sara Cherry

cherrys@mail.med.upenn.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Penn Genome Frontiers Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMF SLH RWD SC. Performed the experiments: CMF SLH SB. Analyzed the data: SMF SLH SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CMF SLH SB RWD MCC SC. Wrote the paper: CMF RWD SC.