About the Authors

Patrick P. Lowe

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick P. Lowe, Benedek Gyongyosi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Benedek Gyongyosi

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick P. Lowe, Benedek Gyongyosi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Abhishek Satishchandran

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Arvin Iracheta-Vellve

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aditya Ambade

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Karen Kodys

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Donna Catalano

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Doyle V. Ward

Affiliations Center for Microbiome Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gyongyi Szabo

Gyongyi.Szabo@umassmed.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PL BG GS. Formal analysis: PL BG DVW. Funding acquisition: PL GS. Investigation: PL BG AS AIV AA KK DC. Resources: DVW. Writing – original draft: PL BG GS. Writing – review & editing: PL BG AS AIV AA DVW GS.