About the Authors

Tamding Wangdi

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

Cheng-Yuk Lee

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Alanna M. Spees

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

Chenzhou Yu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Dawn D. Kingsbury

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

Sebastian E. Winter

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

Christine J. Hastey

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

R. Paul Wilson

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

Volkmar Heinrich

Contributed equally to this work with: Volkmar Heinrich, Andreas J. Bäumler

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Andreas J. Bäumler

Contributed equally to this work with: Volkmar Heinrich, Andreas J. Bäumler

ajbaumler@ucdavis.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW CYL AMS CY DDK SEW CJH RPW VH AJB. Performed the experiments: TW CYL AMS CY DDK SEW CJH RPW VH AJB. Analyzed the data: TW CYL AMS CY DDK SEW RPW VH AJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VH AJB. Wrote the paper: TW AJB.