About the Authors

Amy C. Pickering

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation The Roslin Institute and Edinburgh Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Pauline Vitry

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Life Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Valeriia Prystopiuk

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Life Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Brandon Garcia

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody school of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Magnus Höök

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jeffrey Schoenebeck

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Joan A. Geoghegan

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Yves F. Dufrêne

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Life Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Walloon Excellence in Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Wavre, Belgium

J. Ross Fitzgerald

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

ross.fitzgerald@ed.ac.uk

Affiliation The Roslin Institute and Edinburgh Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.