About the Authors

Blake R. Szelestey

Affiliation The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Derek R. Heimlich

Affiliation The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Forrest K. Raffel

Affiliation The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Sheryl S. Justice

Sheryl.Justice@nationwidechildrens.org (SSJ); Kevin.Mason@nationwidechildrens.org (KMM)

Affiliations The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Kevin M. Mason

Sheryl.Justice@nationwidechildrens.org (SSJ); Kevin.Mason@nationwidechildrens.org (KMM)

Affiliations The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KMM SSJ. Performed the experiments: BRS DRH FKR KMM. Analyzed the data: BRS DRH KMM SSJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KMM SSJ. Wrote the paper: BRS KMM SSJ.