About the Authors

Mohamad El-Zaatari

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

John Y. Kao

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Art Tessier

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Longchuan Bai

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Michael M. Hayes

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Clinton Fontaine

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Kathryn A. Eaton

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Juanita L. Merchant

merchanj@umich.edu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MEZ JYK JLM. Performed the experiments: MEZ AT LB MMH CF. Analyzed the data: MEZ JYK CF KAE JLM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JYK LB CF KAE. Wrote the paper: MEZ JYK JLM.