About the Authors

Martin S. Davey

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin S. Davey, Chan-Yu Lin

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Chan-Yu Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin S. Davey, Chan-Yu Lin

Affiliations Department of Infection, Immunity and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Gareth W. Roberts

Affiliation Institute of Nephrology, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Sinéad Heuston

Affiliation Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre and Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Amanda C. Brown

Affiliation Centre for Immunology and Infectious Disease, Queen Mary University of London, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom

James A. Chess

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Morriston Hospital, Swansea, United Kingdom

Mark A. Toleman

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Cormac G. M. Gahan

Affiliation Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre and Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Colin Hill

Affiliation Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre and Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Tanya Parish

Affiliation Centre for Immunology and Infectious Disease, Queen Mary University of London, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom

John D. Williams

Affiliation Institute of Nephrology, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Simon J. Davies

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Keele University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

David W. Johnson

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Australia and New Zealand Dialysis Transplant Registry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Nicholas Topley

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Bernhard Moser

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Matthias Eberl

eberlm@cf.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NT BM ME. Performed the experiments: MSD CYL. Analyzed the data: MSD CYL JAC BM ME. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GWR SH ACB MAT CGMG CH TP JDW SJD DWJ. Wrote the paper: BM ME.