About the Authors

David Skurnik

Contributed equally to this work with: David Skurnik, Damien Roux

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Damien Roux

Contributed equally to this work with: David Skurnik, Damien Roux

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hugues Aschard

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vincent Cattoir

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Deborah Yoder-Himes

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stephen Lory

stephen.lory@hms.harvad.edu (SL); gpier@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (GBP)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gerald B. Pier

stephen.lory@hms.harvad.edu (SL); gpier@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (GBP)

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 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: DS DR SL GBP. Performed the experiments: DS DR VC DYH. Analyzed the data: DS DR HA VC DYH SL GBP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DS DR HA VC DYH. Wrote the paper: DS SL GBP.