About the Authors

Nicole M. Gilbert

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole M. Gilbert, Valerie P. O’Brien

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Reproductive Health Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Valerie P. O’Brien

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole M. Gilbert, Valerie P. O’Brien

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Amanda L. Lewis

allewis@wustl.edu

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Reproductive Health Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NMG VPO ALL. Data curation: NMG. Formal analysis: NMG ALL. Funding acquisition: NMG ALL. Investigation: NMG VPO. Methodology: NMG VPO ALL. Project administration: ALL. Resources: ALL. Visualization: NMG VPO ALL. Writing – original draft: NMG. Writing – review & editing: NMG VPO ALL.