About the Authors

Valerie P. O’Brien

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

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Denise A. Dorsey

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Thomas J. Hannan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

thannan@wustl.edu (TJH); hultgren@wustl.edu (SJH)

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology and Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Scott J. Hultgren

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

thannan@wustl.edu (TJH); hultgren@wustl.edu (SJH)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.