About the Authors

Marianna Almpani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children-Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Amy Tsurumi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children-Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Thomas Peponis

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yashoda V. Dhole

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laura F. Goodfield

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ronald G. Tompkins

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children-Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laurence G. Rahme

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: rahme@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children-Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

L.G.R. has a financial interest in Spero Therapeutics, a company developing therapies for the treatment of bacterial infections. L.G.R.’s financial interests were reviewed and are managed by Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners HealthCare in accordance with their conflict of interest policies. The rest of the authors declare that no competing interests exist.