About the Authors

Lucas R. Hoffman

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Anthony R. Richardson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Laura S. Houston

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Hemantha D. Kulasekara

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Willm Martens-Habbena

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Mikkel Klausen

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jane L. Burns

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

David A. Stahl

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Daniel J. Hassett

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Ferric C. Fang

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Samuel I. Miller

millersi@u.washington.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LRH WMH DJH. Performed the experiments: LRH ARR LSH HDK WMH MK DJH. Analyzed the data: LRH ARR LSH WMH MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LRH ARR HDK WMH MK JLB DAS DJH FCF SIM. Wrote the paper: LRH ARR HDK JLB DAS DJH FCF SIM.