About the Authors

Carlos J. Sanchez

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Nikhil Kumar

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Anel Lizcano

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Pooja Shivshankar

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Julie C. Dunning Hotopp

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

James H. Jorgensen

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Hervé Tettelin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Carlos J. Orihuela

orihuela@uthscsa.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJS JHJ HT CJO. Performed the experiments: CJS NK AL PS JCDH. Analyzed the data: CJS NK HT CJO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JHJ HT CJO. Wrote the paper: CJS HT CJO.