About the Authors

Gareth J. Staton

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

‡ These two authors contributed equally to this work as joint first authors.

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology & Microbiomes, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, United Kingdom

Simon R. Clegg

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

‡ These two authors contributed equally to this work as joint first authors.

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, College of Science, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool Campus, Lincoln, United Kingdom

Stuart Ainsworth

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology & Microbiomes, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, United Kingdom

Stuart Armstrong

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology & Microbiomes, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, United Kingdom

Stuart D. Carter

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology & Microbiomes, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, United Kingdom

Alan D. Radford

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology & Microbiomes, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, United Kingdom

Alistair Darby

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology & Microbiomes, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, United Kingdom

Jonathan Wastling

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Neil Hall

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Nicholas J. Evans

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

evansnj@liverpool.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology & Microbiomes, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.