About the Authors

Nagendra N. Mishra

Contributed equally to this work with: Nagendra N. Mishra, Arnold S. Bayer

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Arnold S. Bayer

Contributed equally to this work with: Nagendra N. Mishra, Arnold S. Bayer

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Christopher Weidenmaier

Affiliations Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Tübingen, Germany

Timo Grau

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Stefanie Wanner

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Stefania Stefani

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences-Microbiology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Viviana Cafiso

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences-Microbiology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Taschia Bertuccio

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences-Microbiology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Michael R. Yeaman

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Division of Molecular Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Cynthia C. Nast

Affiliations The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Soo-Jin Yang

sjyang@ucla.edu

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NNM ASB CW SJY. Performed the experiments: NNM CW CCN SJY SW. Analyzed the data: NNM ASB MRY CCN SJY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS VC TB TG. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: NNM ASB CW SS MRY SJY.