About the Authors

Marcel E. Curlin

cemarcel@u.washington.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Rafael Zioni

Current address: Stanford University Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Stephen E. Hawes

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Yi Liu

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

Wenjie Deng

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

Geoffrey S. Gottlieb

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Tuofu Zhu

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

James I. Mullins

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MEC RZ. Performed the experiments: MEC. Analyzed the data: MEC RZ SEH YL WD GSG TZ JIM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TZ JIM. Wrote the paper: MEC RZ SEH YL WD GSG TZ JIM.