About the Authors

Valerie P. O’Brien

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America, Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Nicole M. Gilbert

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America, Center for Reproductive Health Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Tania Lebratti

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Kavita Agarwal

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America, Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Lynne Foster

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America, Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Haina Shin

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Amanda L. Lewis

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review – editing

allewis@wustl.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America, Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.