About the Authors

William K. Boyle

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Crystal L. Richards

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

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology, Gene Regulation Section, Division of Intramural Research, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Daniel P. Dulebohn

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology, Gene Regulation Section, Division of Intramural Research, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Amanda K. Zalud

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Jeff A. Shaw

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Sándor Lovas

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Frank C. Gherardini

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

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology, Gene Regulation Section, Division of Intramural Research, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Travis J. Bourret

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

travisbourret@creighton.edu

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.