About the Authors
- Sarah Jane White
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Current address: Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ari Rosenbach
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Paul Lephart
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Current address: Clinical Microbiology/Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Diem Nguyen
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Alana Benjamin
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Current address: Santa Rosa Family Medicine Program, Santa Rosa, California, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Saul Tzipori
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Tufts University, Grafton, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Malcolm Whiteway
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Affiliation Genetics Group, Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Joan Mecsas
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Carol A Kumamoto
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: carol.kumamoto@tufts.edu
Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
CAK conceived and designed the experiments. SJW, AR, PL, DN, AB, ST, and CAK performed the experiments. SJW, AR, PL, DN, AB, JM, and CAK analyzed the data. MW and JM contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. CAK wrote the paper.