About the Authors

Franziska Faber

Affiliation Department of Medial Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States of America

Parameth Thiennimitr

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Luisella Spiga

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

Mariana X. Byndloss

Affiliation Department of Medial Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States of America

Yael Litvak

Affiliation Department of Medial Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States of America

Sara Lawhon

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

Helene L. Andrews-Polymenis

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, TX, United States of America

Sebastian E. Winter

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

Andreas J. Bäumler

ajbaumler@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Medial Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FF PT SL HLAP SEW AJB. Data curation: FF. Formal analysis: FF PT MXB SL LS HLAP SEW. Funding acquisition: PT SEW AJB. Investigation: FF PT MXB LS YL SL HLAP. Methodology: FF PT MXB SL LS YL HLAP SEW AJB. Project administration: AJB. Resources: SL HLAP LS SEW AJB. Supervision: SL HLAP SEW AJB. Validation: FF PT SEW AJB. Visualization: FF AJB. Writing – original draft: FF AJB. Writing – review & editing: FF AJB.