About the Authors

Bettina Schaible

Affiliations UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science and The Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, School of Pharmacy, Queens's University, Belfast, United Kingdom

Siobhán McClean

Affiliation Institute of Technology Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland

Andrew Selfridge

Affiliation UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science and The Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Alexis Broquet

Affiliation Laboratoire UPRES EA 3826 «Thérapeutiques cliniques et expérimentales des infections», Faculté de médecine, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France

Karim Asehnoune

Affiliations Laboratoire UPRES EA 3826 «Thérapeutiques cliniques et expérimentales des infections», Faculté de médecine, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes, Service anesthésie réanimation chirurgicale, Hôtel Dieu-HME, Nantes, France

Cormac T. Taylor

Contributed equally to this work with: Cormac T. Taylor, Kirsten Schaffer

Affiliation UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science and The Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Kirsten Schaffer

Contributed equally to this work with: Cormac T. Taylor, Kirsten Schaffer

kirsten.e.schaffer@ucd.ie

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CTT KS. Performed the experiments: BS AS AB. Analyzed the data: BS AB CTT KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM KA. Wrote the paper: BS CTT KS.