About the Authors

Martin Rottman

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin Rottman, Joel Goldberg

Affiliations Laboratory for Musculoskeletal Research and Innovation, Department of Orthopaedics, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, The Wyss Institute at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, EA 3647 Physiopathologie et Diagnostic des Infections Microbiennes, Université Versailles St Quentin, and Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, AP-HP, Garches, France

Joel Goldberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin Rottman, Joel Goldberg

Affiliation Laboratory for Musculoskeletal Research and Innovation, Department of Orthopaedics, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

S. Adam Hacking

ahacking@partners.org

Affiliation Laboratory for Musculoskeletal Research and Innovation, Department of Orthopaedics, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR JG SAH. Performed the experiments: MR JG. Analyzed the data: MR JG SAH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SAH. Wrote the paper: MR JG SAH.