About the Authors

Anukul T. Shenoy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Terry Brissac

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Ryan P. Gilley

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Nikhil Kumar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Yong Wang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Norberto Gonzalez-Juarbe

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Whitney S. Hinkle

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Sean C. Daugherty

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Amol C. Shetty

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Sandra Ott

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Luke J. Tallon

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Jessy Deshane

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Hervé Tettelin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Carlos J. Orihuela

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

corihuel@uab.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.