About the Authors

Anna Poukchanski

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

Heather M. Fritz

Contributed equally to this work with: Heather M. Fritz, Michelle L. Tonkin

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

Michelle L. Tonkin

Contributed equally to this work with: Heather M. Fritz, Michelle L. Tonkin

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Moritz Treeck

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

Martin J. Boulanger

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

John C. Boothroyd

john.boothroyd@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: AP HMF MLT MT MJB JCB. Performed the experiments: AP HMF MLT MT. Analyzed the data: AP MLT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP HMF MLT MT. Wrote the paper: AP HMF MLT MT. Created the sporoAMA1-HA plasmid and performed validating experiments: MT.