About the Authors

Yi Liu

yiliu197@uw.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ushnal Rao

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jan McClure

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Philip Konopa

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Siriphan Manocheewa

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Moon Kim

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lennie Chen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ryan M. Troyer

Current address: Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Denis M. Tebit

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Sarah Holte

Affiliation Program in Biostatistics and Biomathematics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Eric J. Arts

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

James I. Mullins

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL JIM. Performed the experiments: YL UR JM PK MK LC RMT DMT. Analyzed the data: YL SM SH JIM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RMT DMT SH EJA. Wrote the paper: YL SH JIM.