About the Authors

Emma Hennessy

Affiliation BIOMERIT Research Centre, School of Microbiology, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland

Julie O'Callaghan

Affiliation BIOMERIT Research Centre, School of Microbiology, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland

Marlies J. Mooij

Affiliation BIOMERIT Research Centre, School of Microbiology, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland

Claire Legendre

Affiliation BIOMERIT Research Centre, School of Microbiology, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland

Olga Camacho-Vanegas

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Sandra C. Camacho

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Claire Adams

Affiliation BIOMERIT Research Centre, School of Microbiology, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland

John A. Martignetti

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Fergal O'Gara

f.ogara@ucc.ie

Affiliations BIOMERIT Research Centre, School of Microbiology, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland, School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FOG EH CA MJM CL JAM. Performed the experiments: EH JOC OCV SCC. Analyzed the data: EH MJM CL CA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAM FOG SCC. Wrote the paper: EH CA OCV FOG.