About the Authors

Jill A. Dembowski

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sarah E. Dremel

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Neal A. DeLuca

ndeluca@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JAD NAD. Data curation: JAD SED. Funding acquisition: NAD. Investigation: JAD SED. Methodology: JAD SED NAD. Writing – original draft: JAD. Writing – review & editing: JAD SED NAD.