About the Authors

Jim Sun

Current address: Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vijender Singh

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Alice Lau

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Richard W. Stokes

Affiliation Life Sciences Centre, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Andrés Obregón-Henao

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Ian M. Orme

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Dennis Wong

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Yossef Av-Gay

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Zakaria Hmama

hmama@mail.ubc.ca

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS RWS IMO YAG ZH. Performed the experiments: JS VS AL RWS AOH DW. Analyzed the data: JS VS AL RWS AOH DW IMO YAG ZH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VS AL RWS DW IMO YAG ZH. Wrote the paper: JS RWS VS IMO YAG ZH.