About the Authors

Michael W. Mullowney

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Duchossois Family Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Angelica Moran

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations Duchossois Family Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Antonio Hernandez

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Duchossois Family Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Mary McMillin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Duchossois Family Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Amber R. Rose

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Duchossois Family Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

David Moran

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Duchossois Family Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jessica Little

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Duchossois Family Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ann B. Nguyen

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Bhakti K. Patel

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Christopher J. Lehmann

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Duchossois Family Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Matthew A. Odenwald

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Duchossois Family Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Eric G. Pamer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Duchossois Family Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kiang-Teck J. Yeo

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ashley M. Sidebottom

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

asidebottom@bsd.uchicago.edu

Affiliation Duchossois Family Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Eric G. Pamer has filed a provisional patent application for the use of stool metabolite measurements as a method to identify patients at risk for hospital-acquired infection. Eric G. Pamer is an inventor on patent numbers 11471495 (methods and composition for reducing infection), 11364269 (methods and composition for reducing infection or colonization), 11207374 (lantibiotics, lantibiotic-producing bacteria, compositions, and methods of production and use thereof), 11197897 (methods and compositions for reducing vancomycin-resistant Enterococci infection or colonization), 11045506 (methods and compositions for identifying and treating subjects at risk for checkpoint blockade therapy associated colitis) and receives royalties from Seres Therapeutics Inc. Eric G. Pamer serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Diversigen and on the Gates Foundation Global Health Scientific Advisory Committee. Ashley M. Sidebottom serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of 32 Biosciences Gateway Biome. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.