About the Authors

Kristen L. Lokken

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristen L. Lokken, Jason P. Mooney

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jason P. Mooney

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristen L. Lokken, Jason P. Mooney

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Brian P. Butler

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Mariana N. Xavier

Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Departamento de Clínica e Cirurgia Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Jennifer Y. Chau

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Nicola Schaltenberg

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Ramie H. Begum

Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Life Sciences & Bioinformatics, Assam University, Diphu Campus, Karbi Anglong, Assam, India

Werner Müller

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Shirley Luckhart

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Renée M. Tsolis

rmtsolis@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KLL JPM BPB RMT. Performed the experiments: KLL JPM BPB MNX JYC NS RHB. Analyzed the data: KLL JPM BPB MNX NS RHB WM SL RMT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WM SL. Wrote the paper: KLL JPM SL RMT.