About the Authors

Xue-Song Zhang

xuesong.zhang@nyumc.org

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine and VA Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Nicole Tegtmeyer

Affiliation Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Department of Biology, Division of Microbiology, Erlangen, Germany

Leah Traube

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine and VA Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Shawn Jindal

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine and VA Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Guillermo Perez-Perez

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine and VA Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Heinrich Sticht

Affiliation Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Bioinformatics, Institute for Biochemistry, Erlangen, Germany

Steffen Backert

Affiliation Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Department of Biology, Division of Microbiology, Erlangen, Germany

Martin J. Blaser

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine and VA Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJB SB XSZ NT LT GPP. Performed the experiments: XSZ NT LT GPP SJ HS. Analyzed the data: XSZ NT LT GPP SJ HS SB MJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XSZ NT LT GPP SJ HS. Wrote the paper: XSZ MJB NT SB HS.