About the Authors

Erin C. Hagan

Contributed equally to this work with: Erin C. Hagan, Amanda L. Lloyd

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Amanda L. Lloyd

Contributed equally to this work with: Erin C. Hagan, Amanda L. Lloyd

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

David A. Rasko

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences and Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Gary J. Faerber

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Harry L. T. Mobley

hmobley@umich.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ECH ALL DAR GJF HLTM. Performed the experiments: ECH ALL. Analyzed the data: ECH ALL DAR HLTM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DAR GJF. Wrote the paper: ECH ALL DAR HLTM.