About the Authors
- Kathie-Anne Walters
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kathie-Anne Walters, Michael A Joyce
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kathiw@u.washington.edu
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Michael A Joyce
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kathie-Anne Walters, Michael A Joyce
Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Jill C Thompson
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Maria W Smith
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Matthew M Yeh
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Sean Proll
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Lin-Fu Zhu
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- T. J Gao
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Norman M Kneteman
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- D. Lorne Tyrrell
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Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Michael G Katze
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
KAW, MAJ, MWS, and MGK conceived and designed the experiments. KAW, MAJ, JCT, LFZ, and TJG performed the experiments. KAW and MMY analyzed the data. KAW, MAJ, SP, LFZ, NMK, DLT, and MGK contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. KAW and MGK wrote the paper.