About the Authors

Derek S. Sarovich

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Erin P. Price

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Alex T. Von Schulze

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

James M. Cook

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Mark Mayo

Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Lindsey M. Watson

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Leisha Richardson

Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Meagan L. Seymour

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Apichai Tuanyok

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

David M. Engelthaler

Affiliation Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Talima Pearson

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Sharon J. Peacock

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Bart J. Currie

Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Paul Keim

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

David M. Wagner

Dave.Wagner@nau.edu

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DSS EPP AT BJC DME PK DMW. Performed the experiments: DSS EPP ATVS JMC MM LMW LR MLS. Analyzed the data: DSS EPP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT TP SJP BJC. Wrote the paper: DSS EPP.