About the Authors

Cindy S. Tran

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Stephanie M. Rangel

Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Henrik Almblad

Affiliation Costern Biofilm Center, Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Arlinet Kierbel

Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay

Michael Givskov

Affiliations Costern Biofilm Center, Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Tim Tolker-Nielsen

Affiliation Costern Biofilm Center, Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Alan R. Hauser

Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Joanne N. Engel

jengel@medicine.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CST SMR HA AK MG TT ARH JNE. Performed the experiments: CST SMR HA. Analyzed the data: CST SMR HA TT ARH JNE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SMR HA MG TT ARH. Wrote the paper: CST SRM HA AK TT ARH JNE.