About the Authors

Mark R. Wilson

Affiliation Center for Food Science and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Eric Brown

Affiliation Battelle Memorial Institute, Crystal City, Virginia, United States of America

Chris Keys

Affiliation Battelle Memorial Institute, Crystal City, Virginia, United States of America

Errol Strain

Affiliation Battelle Memorial Institute, Crystal City, Virginia, United States of America

Yan Luo

Affiliation Battelle Memorial Institute, Crystal City, Virginia, United States of America

Tim Muruvanda

Affiliation Battelle Memorial Institute, Crystal City, Virginia, United States of America

Christopher Grim

Affiliations Battelle Memorial Institute, Crystal City, Virginia, United States of America, Division of Virulence Assessment (DVA), Virulence Mechanisms Branch (VMB), CFSAN/FDA, Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment (OARSA), Laurel, Maryland, United States of America

Junia Jean-Gilles Beaubrun

Affiliation Division of Virulence Assessment (DVA), Virulence Mechanisms Branch (VMB), CFSAN/FDA, Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment (OARSA), Laurel, Maryland, United States of America

Karen Jarvis

Affiliation Division of Virulence Assessment (DVA), Virulence Mechanisms Branch (VMB), CFSAN/FDA, Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment (OARSA), Laurel, Maryland, United States of America

Laura Ewing

Affiliation Division of Virulence Assessment (DVA), Virulence Mechanisms Branch (VMB), CFSAN/FDA, Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment (OARSA), Laurel, Maryland, United States of America

Gopal Gopinath

Affiliation Division of Virulence Assessment (DVA), Virulence Mechanisms Branch (VMB), CFSAN/FDA, Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment (OARSA), Laurel, Maryland, United States of America

Darcy Hanes

Affiliation Division of Virulence Assessment (DVA), Virulence Mechanisms Branch (VMB), CFSAN/FDA, Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment (OARSA), Laurel, Maryland, United States of America

Marc W. Allard

marc.allard@fda.hhs.gov

Affiliation Battelle Memorial Institute, Crystal City, Virginia, United States of America

Steven Musser

Affiliation Battelle Memorial Institute, Crystal City, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRW MWA. Performed the experiments: TM CG GG DH. Analyzed the data: YL CK ES JJB KJ LE GG DH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EB ES SM. Wrote the paper: MRW YL DH MWA.