About the Authors

Manu N. Capoor

ondrej.slaby@ceitec.muni.cz (OS); mcapoor@mail.rockefeller.edu (MNC)

Affiliations Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America, Department of Molecular Oncology, Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Filip Ruzicka

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk university, St. Anne’s Faculty Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic

Tana Machackova

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Radim Jancalek

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, St. Anne’s University Hospital, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Martin Smrcka

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Brno, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Jonathan E. Schmitz

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Marketa Hermanova

Affiliation 1st Department of Pathological Anatomy, St. Anne’s University Hospital, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Jiri Sana

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Elleni Michu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

John C. Baird

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Fahad S. Ahmed

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Karel Maca

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Brno, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Radim Lipina

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Ostrava, Ostrava University, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Todd F. Alamin

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Michael F. Coscia

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, OrthoIndy Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, United States of America

Jerry L. Stonemetz

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Timothy Witham

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Garth D. Ehrlich

Affiliations Center for Genomic Sciences, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, and Institute of Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Ziya L. Gokaslan

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, United States of America

Konstantinos Mavrommatis

Affiliation Celgene Corporation, Information Knowledge and Utilization, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Christof Birkenmaier

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

Vincent A. Fischetti

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Ondrej Slaby

ondrej.slaby@ceitec.muni.cz (OS); mcapoor@mail.rockefeller.edu (MNC)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: MNC, FSA, JLS, CB, OS, JES, K. Mavrommatis, and VAF have stock ownership or options in DiscitisDX, Inc. There are no other financial or non-financial competing interests. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MNC FR RJ JES MS K. Mavrommatis FSA JLS CB VAF OS. Data curation: MNC FSA OS TM JS CB. Formal analysis: MNC OS. Investigation: FR FSA TM EM JS MH. Methodology: MNC FR RJ JES MS K. Mavrommatis FSA JLS CB VAF OS. Project administration: MNC OS FR CB RJ. Resources: FR OS RJ RL MS K. Maca. Supervision: VAF. Visualization: MNC OS JCB FSA. Writing - original draft: MNC FSA OS JCB. Writing - review & editing: MNC FR TM RJ MS JES MH JS EM JCB FSA K. Maca RL TA MC JLS TW GDE ZLG K. Mavrommatis VAF CB OS.