About the Authors

Ronen Hazan

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jianxin He

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gaoping Xiao

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Valérie Dekimpe

Affiliation INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, Québec, Canada

Yiorgos Apidianakis

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Biliana Lesic

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christos Astrakas

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric Déziel

Affiliation INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, Québec, Canada

François Lépine

Affiliation INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, Québec, Canada

Laurence G. Rahme

rahme@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RH GX LGR. Performed the experiments: RH JH GX VD YA BL CA FL. Analyzed the data: RH VD YA ED FL LGR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ED FL LGR. Wrote the paper: RH LGR.