About the Authors

Madeleine G. Moule

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Denise M. Monack

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

David S. Schneider

dschneider@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MGM DMM DSS. Performed the experiments: MGM. Analyzed the data: MGM DMM DSS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MGM. Wrote the paper: MGM DMM DSS.