About the Authors

Tamara D. Simon

Tamara.Simon@seattlechildrens.org

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Christopher E. Pope

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Samuel R. Browd

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jeffrey G. Ojemann

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jay Riva-Cambrin

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Primary Children’s Medical Center, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Nicole Mayer-Hamblett

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Margaret Rosenfeld

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Danielle M. Zerr

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lucas Hoffman

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Center for Infection and Prematurity Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TDS CEP NMH MR DZ LH. Analyzed the data: TDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CEP SRB JGO JRC. Wrote the paper: TDS CEP SRB JGO JRC NMH MR DZ LH.