About the Authors

Chelsie E. Armbruster

Contributed equally to this work with: Chelsie E. Armbruster, Valerie Forsyth-DeOrnellas

chelsiea@buffalo.edu (CEA); hmobley@umich.edu (HLTM)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Valerie Forsyth-DeOrnellas

Contributed equally to this work with: Chelsie E. Armbruster, Valerie Forsyth-DeOrnellas

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Alexandra O. Johnson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Sara N. Smith

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Lili Zhao

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Weisheng Wu

Affiliation Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Harry L. T. Mobley

chelsiea@buffalo.edu (CEA); hmobley@umich.edu (HLTM)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CEA. Data curation: CEA VFD AOJ. Formal analysis: CEA WW LZ VFD AOJ. Funding acquisition: CEA HLTM. Investigation: CEA VFD SNS AOJ. Methodology: CEA VFD AOJ SNS WW LZ. Project administration: CEA. Resources: CEA HLTM. Software: WW LZ. Supervision: CEA HLTM. Validation: CEA VFD AOJ. Visualization: CEA VFD AOJ. Writing – original draft: CEA VFD AOJ. Writing – review & editing: CEA VFD AOJ SNS WW LZ HLTM.