About the Authors

Bryan Utter

butter@rockefeller.edu

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Douglas R. Deutsch

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Raymond Schuch

Current address: ContraFect Corporation, Yonkers, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Benjamin Y. Winer

Current address: Lewis Thomas Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Kathleen Verratti

Current address: Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliations Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Naval Medical Research Center-Frederick, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Kim Bishop-Lilly

Affiliations Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Naval Medical Research Center-Frederick, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Shanmuga Sozhamannan

Current address: GoldBelt Raven, LLC, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliations Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Naval Medical Research Center-Frederick, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Vincent A. Fischetti

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Raymond Schuch is a Vice President for Research at Contrafect, however there is no association with Contrafect or Dr. Schuch and the findings in this manuscript. There are no competing interests at all. The same is the case for Dr. Shanmuga Sozhaman, Technical Coordinator, at Goldbelt Raven. As such, this does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BDU DRD RS SS VAF. Performed the experiments: BDU DRD BYW KV KB. Analyzed the data: BDU DRD KV KB VAF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BDU DRD KV KB VAF. Wrote the paper: BDU DRD RS SS VAF.