About the Authors

Fay E. Dawes

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

Dieter M. Bulach

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Alexander Kuzevski

Affiliation Microbiological Diagnostic Unit, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Karl A. Bettelheim

Current address: Rosedale Lodge, London, United Kingdom

Affiliation Microbiological Diagnostic Unit, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Carola Venturini

Affiliation School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences and the Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, University of Queensland, Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Steven P. Djordjevic

Affiliations Microbiology and Immunology Section, Industry and Investment NSW, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle, New South Wales, Australia, The ithree Institute, University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Mark J. Walker

mark.walker@uq.edu.au

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences and the Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, University of Queensland, Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FED SPD MJW. Performed the experiments: FED AK KAB CV. Analyzed the data: FED DMB AK KAB SPD MJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DMB AK KA SPD MJW. Wrote the paper: FED.