About the Authors

Tara Wahab

tara.wahab@folkhalsomyndigheten.se

Affiliation Public Health Agency of Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Stockholm, Sweden

Dawn N. Birdsell

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

Marika Hjertqvist

Affiliation Public Health Agency of Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Stockholm, Sweden

Cedar L. Mitchell

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

David M. Wagner

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

Paul S. Keim

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

Ingela Hedenström

Affiliation Public Health Agency of Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Stockholm, Sweden

Sven Löfdahl

Affiliation Public Health Agency of Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW DB SL PK. Performed the experiments: TW IH CM DW DB. Analyzed the data: TW DB MH SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DB TW SL PK. Wrote the paper: TW DB DW PK SL.