About the Authors

Gregory M. Gauthier

gmg@medicine.wisc.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Thomas D. Sullivan

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Sergio S. Gallardo

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

T. Tristan Brandhorst

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Amber J. Vanden Wymelenberg

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Christina A. Cuomo

Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Garret Suen

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Cameron R. Currie

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Bruce S. Klein

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Bruce S. Klein serves on the editorial board for PLoS Pathogens.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GMG TDS AJVW CAC GS CRC BSK. Performed the experiments: GMG TDS SSG TTB CAC GS. Analyzed the data: GMG TDS SSG TTB AJVW CAC GS CRC BSK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GMG CRC BSK. Wrote the paper: GMG TDS SSG TTB AJVW CAC GS BSK.