About the Authors
- Douglas R Boettner
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Christopher D Huston
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America
- Alicia S Linford
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Sarah N Buss
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Eric Houpt
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Nicholas E Sherman
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- William A Petri Jr.
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: wap3g@virginia.edu
Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
DRB wrote the manuscript and performed most of the experiments, CDH and NES performed and analyzed the proteomics, ASL designed the shRNA system, SNB conducted confocal imagestream analysis and EH the animal models, and WAP conceived the experiments.