About the Authors

Aaron Scott

Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron Scott, Sinéad Weldon

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Sinéad Weldon

Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron Scott, Sinéad Weldon

s.weldon@qub.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Paul J. Buchanan

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Bettina Schock

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Robert K. Ernst

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, School of Dentistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Danny F. McAuley

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Michael M. Tunney

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Chris R. Irwin

Affiliation Centre for Dental Education, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

J. Stuart Elborn

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Clifford C. Taggart

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CT AS SW. Performed the experiments: AS SW. Analyzed the data: AS SW CT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PJB BS RKE MMT CRI JSE DFM. Wrote the paper: SW AS CT.