About the Authors

Dhananjay R. Namjoshi

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Georgina Martin

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

James Donkin

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Anna Wilkinson

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Sophie Stukas

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jianjia Fan

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Michael Carr

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Sepideh Tabarestani

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Kelli Wuerth

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Robert E. W. Hancock

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Cheryl L. Wellington

*cheryl@cmmt.ubc.ca

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DRN JD CLW. Performed the experiments: DRN GM AW SS JF KW. Analyzed the data: DRN MC ST KW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLW REWH. Wrote the paper: DRN CLW.