About the Authors

Anagha Kadam

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rory A. Eutsey

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jason Rosch

Affiliation Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Xinyu Miao

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Mark Longwell

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Biofilm Research, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Wenjie Xu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Carol A. Woolford

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Todd Hillman

Affiliation Pittsburgh Ear Associates, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Anfal Shakir Motib

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Hasan Yesilkaya

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Aaron P. Mitchell

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

N. Luisa Hiller

lhiller@andrew.cmu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center of Excellence in Biofilm Research, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AK NLH. Formal analysis: AK NLH. Funding acquisition: NLH. Investigation: AK RAE XM CAW WX JR ML TH. Methodology: AK NLH JR. Project administration: AK NLH. Resources: APM ASM HY JR. Supervision: NLH. Validation: AK RAE. Visualization: AK. Writing – original draft: AK NLH. Writing – review & editing: AK NLH APM HY JR.