About the Authors

Aishwarya Devaraj

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

Affiliation Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Juan F. González

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Bradley Eichar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Gatan Thilliez

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich, United Kingdom

Robert A. Kingsley

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich, United Kingdom, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Stephen Baker

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliations Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Marc W. Allard

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Food and Drug Administration-FDA, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Lauren O. Bakaletz

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

Affiliations Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Infectious Diseases Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

John S. Gunn

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

John.Gunn@NationwideChildrens.org (JSG); Steven.Goodman@NationwideChildrens.org (SDG)

Affiliations Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Infectious Diseases Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Oral and GI Microbiology Research Affinity Group, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Steven D. Goodman

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

John.Gunn@NationwideChildrens.org (JSG); Steven.Goodman@NationwideChildrens.org (SDG)

Affiliations Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Infectious Diseases Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Oral and GI Microbiology Research Affinity Group, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.