About the Authors

Manu N. Capoor

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

Affiliations Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, 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

Jonathan E. Schmitz

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

Garth A. James

Affiliation Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

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

Radim Lipina

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

Fahad S. Ahmed

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

Todd F. Alamin

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

Neel Anand

Affiliation Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

John C. Baird

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

Nitin Bhatia

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Sibel Demir-Deviren

Affiliation Spine Center, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Robert K. Eastlack

Affiliation Scripps Clinic Division of Orthopedic Surgery, San Diego, California, United States of America

Steve Fisher

Affiliation Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Steven R. Garfin

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jaspaul S. Gogia

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kaiser Permanente—San Jose Medical Center, San Jose, California, United States of America

Ziya L. Gokaslan

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

Calvin C. Kuo

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kaiser Permanente–Oakland Medical Center, Oakland, California, United States of America

Yu-Po Lee

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Konstantinos Mavrommatis

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

Elleni Michu

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

Hana Noskova

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

Assaf Raz

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

Jiri Sana

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

A. Nick Shamie

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Philip S. Stewart

Affiliation Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Jerry L. Stonemetz

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

Jeffrey C. Wang

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Timothy F. Witham

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

Michael F. Coscia

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, OrthoIndy Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana, 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, New York, United States of America

Ondrej Slaby

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

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

Competing Interests

MNC, FSA, JCB, JLS, OS, JES, KM, and VAF have stock ownership or options in DiscitisDX, Inc. KM is an employee of Celgene Corporation. There are no other financial or non-financial competing interests. These affiliations do not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MNC FR JES GJ TM RJ MS RL FSA TFA NA JCB NB SDD RKE SF SG JSG ZLG CCK YL KM EM HN AR JS ANS PSS JLS JCW TW MFC CB VAF OS. Data curation: MNC FR RJ MS FSA OS TM EM JS JCB GJ PSS SF. Formal analysis: MNC FR JES GJ RJ MS FSA OS TM JS CB JCB SF PSS EM AR. Funding acquisition: MNC OS FR GJ RJ MS FSA PSS. Investigation: MNC FR JES GJ TM RJ MS FSA JCB SF EM HN AR JS OS. Methodology: MNC FR JES GJ RJ MS FSA TFA OS KM AR JS PSS JLS ZLG TW MFC CB VAF OS SDD JCW. Project administration: OS MNC. Resources: MNC FR GJ RJ MS FSA PSS OS. Supervision: MNC OS CB VAF GJ PSS. Validation: MNC FR GJ TM RJ MS FSA SF HN JS PSS OS. Visualization: MNC FR JES GJ TM RJ MS RL FSA TFA NA JCB NB SDD RKE SF SG JSG ZLG CCK YL KM EM HN AR JS ANS PSS JLS JCW TW MFC CB VAF OS. Writing – original draft: MNC JES GJ FSA JCB JS KM CB OS. Writing – review & editing: MNC FR JES GJ TM RJ MS RL FSA TFA NA JCB NB SDD RKE SF SG JSG ZLG CCK YL KM EM HN AR JS ANS PSS JLS JCW TW MFC CB VAF OS.