About the Authors

Melinda R. Grosser

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Elyse Paluscio

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Lance R. Thurlow

Roles Investigation

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

Marcus M. Dillon

Roles Data curation

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

Vaughn S. Cooper

Roles Data curation

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

Thomas H. Kawula

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Anthony R. Richardson

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

anthony.richardson@pitt.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.