About the Authors

Natasa Giallourou

Contributed equally to this work with: Natasa Giallourou, Gregory L. Medlock

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Computational and Systems Medicine, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Gregory L. Medlock

Contributed equally to this work with: Natasa Giallourou, Gregory L. Medlock

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

David T. Bolick

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

Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease and International Health, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

Pedro HQS Medeiros

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biomedicine, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

Solanka E. Ledwaba

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, Limpopo, South Africa

Glynis L. Kolling

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease and International Health, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

Kenneth Tung

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

Patricia Guerry

Roles Resources

Affiliation Enteric Diseases Department, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America

Jonathan R. Swann

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

Affiliation Division of Computational and Systems Medicine, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Richard L. Guerrant

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

guerrant@virginia.edu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease and International Health, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.