About the Authors

Brittany E. Goldberg

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Emmanuel F. Mongodin

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

Cheron E. Jones

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Michelle Chung

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Dentistry, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Claire M. Fraser

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Anupama Tate

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Dentistry, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Steven L. Zeichner

zeichner@gwu.org

Affiliations Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children’s Research Institute, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, Departments of Pediatrics and Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SLZ CMF AT. Performed the experiments: MC AT EFM CEJ. Analyzed the data: BG EFM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EFM CEJ CMF SLZ. Wrote the paper: BG EFM CMF AT SLZ.