About the Authors

Zhan Gao

Affiliation Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Chi-hong Tseng

Affiliations Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Bruce E. Strober

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Zhiheng Pei

Affiliations Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, New York Harbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Martin J. Blaser

Martin.blaser@med.nyu.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, New York Harbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZG MJB. Performed the experiments: ZG. Analyzed the data: ZG ChT ZP MJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BES ZP. Wrote the paper: ZG ChT BES ZP MJB.