About the Authors

Jennifer M. Ritchie

mwaldor@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (MKW); jennymritchie@gmail.com (JMR)

Current address: Faculty of Health & Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and HHMI, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Haopeng Rui

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and HHMI, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xiaohui Zhou

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and HHMI, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tetsuya Iida

Affiliation Department of Bacterial Infections, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Toshio Kodoma

Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Research on Pathogenic Bacteria, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Susuma Ito

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brigid M. Davis

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and HHMI, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Roderick T. Bronson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Matthew K. Waldor

mwaldor@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (MKW); jennymritchie@gmail.com (JMR)

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and HHMI, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMR HR MKW. Performed the experiments: JMR HR XZ. Analyzed the data: JMR HR SI RTB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TI TK SI RTB. Wrote the paper: JMR BMD MKW.