About the Authors

Trevor Dalton

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Scot E. Dowd

Affiliation Research and Testing Laboratory, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Randall D. Wolcott

Affiliation Research and Testing Laboratory, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Yan Sun

Affiliation Research and Testing Laboratory, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Chase Watters

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

John A. Griswold

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Kendra P. Rumbaugh

kendra.rumbaugh@ttuhsc.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

RW and SD are affiliated with a commercial company (Research and Testing Laboratory, Lubbock, Texas). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TD KR SD. Performed the experiments: TD YS CW. Analyzed the data: KR TD RW JG SD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KR SD. Wrote the paper: TD KR.