About the Authors

Wanjun Qi

Contributed equally to this work with: Wanjun Qi, Maikel Acosta-Zaldivar

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

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Maikel Acosta-Zaldivar

Contributed equally to this work with: Wanjun Qi, Maikel Acosta-Zaldivar

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter R. Flanagan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Current address: Department of Clinical Microbiology, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Affiliation Division of Oral Biosciences, School of Dental Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Ning-Ning Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Current address: School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Niketa Jani

Roles Investigation

Current address: BioAgilytix, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

José F. Fierro

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Laboratory of Oral Microbiology, University Clinic of Dentistry (CLUO), and Department of Functional Biology (Microbiology), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain

María T. Andrés

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Laboratory of Oral Microbiology, University Clinic of Dentistry (CLUO), and Department of Functional Biology (Microbiology), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain

Gary P. Moran

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Oral Biosciences, School of Dental Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Julia R. Köhler

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

Julia.koehler@childrens.harvard.edu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.