About the Authors

Majed F. Alghoribi

Affiliations Microbiology and Virology Unit, School of Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Tarek M. Gibreel

Faculty of Medicine, University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya

Affiliation Microbiology and Virology Unit, School of Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Andrew R. Dodgson

Affiliation Central Manchester Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom

Scott A. Beatson

Affiliation Australian Infectious Disease Centre, School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Mathew Upton

mathew.upton@plymouth.ac.uk

Affiliations Microbiology and Virology Unit, School of Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, School of Biomedical and Healthcare Science, Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MU TG AD SB. Performed the experiments: MA TG MU SB. Analyzed the data: MA MU TG SB AD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA MU TG SB AD. Wrote the paper: MA MU TG SB AD.