About the Authors

Aimee D. Wilde

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Daniel J. Snyder

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Nicole E. Putnam

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Michael D. Valentino

Current address: Exosome Diagnostics, Inc. Riverside Technology Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Departments of Ophthalmology and Microbiology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Neal D. Hammer

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Zachery R. Lonergan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Scott A. Hinger

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Esar E. Aysanoa

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Catlyn Blanchard

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Paul M. Dunman

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Gregory A. Wasserman

Current address: Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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

John Chen

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Affiliation Skirball Institute Program in Molecular Pathogenesis, Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Bo Shopsin

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

Michael S. Gilmore

Affiliation Departments of Ophthalmology and Microbiology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric P. Skaar

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare Services, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

James E. Cassat

jim.cassat@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ADW MDV BS MSG EPS JEC. Performed the experiments: ADW DJS NEP MDV NDH ZRL SAH EEA CB PMD GAW JC JEC. Analyzed the data: ADW MDV BS MSG EPS JEC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GAW JC PMD BS. Wrote the paper: ADW MDV MSG EPS JEC.