About the Authors

Raymond M. Johnson

raymjohn@iupui.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Micah S. Kerr

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

James E. Slaven

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

Raymond Johnson and Indiana University School of Medicine have a patent PENDING related to this research titled GENETICALLY MODIFIED MICE FOR MODELING CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS PATHOLOGY AND ASSISTING IN VACCINE DEVELOPMENT, 61/361,110. Raymond Johnson and the Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation are partial owners of a virtual biotechnology company called Zeta Immuno. At this time Zeta Immuno does not have intellectual property rights related to any of the information or technology present in this manuscript. The other authors have no conflicts of interest related to this manuscript. 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: RMJ JES. Performed the experiments: RMJ MSK. Analyzed the data: JES. Wrote the paper: RMJ. Manuscript editing and revision: RMJ MSK JES.