About the Authors

Adeline M. Hajjar

hajjar@uw.edu

Affiliation Department of Comparative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Robert K. Ernst

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jaehun Yi

Affiliation Department of Comparative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Cathy S. Yam

Affiliation Department of Comparative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Samuel I. Miller

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Microbiology and Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AMH RKE SIM. Data curation: AMH RKE. Formal analysis: AMH RKE. Funding acquisition: AMH SIM. Investigation: AMH RKE JY CSY. Methodology: AMH RKE. Project administration: AMH RKE. Resources: AMH RKE. Supervision: AMH RKE. Validation: AMH RKE. Visualization: AMH RKE. Writing – original draft: AMH RKE. Writing – review & editing: AMH RKE SIM.