About the Authors

Krystle L. Mohawk

Affiliation Enteric Diseases Department, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Frédéric Poly

Affiliation Enteric Diseases Department, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Jason W. Sahl

Current address: Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

David A. Rasko

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Patricia Guerry

patricia.guerry@med.navy.mil

Affiliation Enteric Diseases Department, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KLM FP PG. Performed the experiments: KLM FP JWS. Analyzed the data: KLM FP JWS DAR PG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KLM FP JWS DAR. Wrote the paper: KLM FP JWS DAR PG.