About the Authors

Brent L. Williams

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Mady Hornig

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Timothy Buie

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Margaret L. Bauman

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics and Learning and Developmental Disabilities Evaluation and Rehabilitation Services (LADDERS), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Myunghee Cho Paik

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Ivan Wick

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Ashlee Bennett

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Omar Jabado

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

David L. Hirschberg

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

W. Ian Lipkin

wil2001@columbia.edu

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BLW MH TB MLB WIL. Performed the experiments: BLW DLH AB. Analyzed the data: BLW MH MCP IW OJ. Wrote the paper: BLW MH WIL. Created Figures and Tables: BLW. Supervised research: WIL.