About the Authors

Fen Z. Hu

Affiliations Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel College of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rory Eutsey

Affiliation Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Azad Ahmed

Affiliation Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nelson Frazao

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica Oeiras, Portugal, Laboratory of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Evan Powell

Affiliation Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

N. Luisa Hiller

Affiliation Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Todd Hillman

Affiliation Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Farrel J. Buchinsky

Affiliation Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert Boissy

Affiliation Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Benjamin Janto

Affiliations Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel College of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jennifer Kress-Bennett

Affiliations Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel College of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Mark Longwell

Affiliation Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Suzanne Ezzo

Affiliation Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

J. Christopher Post

Affiliations Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel College of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Deparment of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Drexel College of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Mirjana Nesin

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Alexander Tomasz

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Garth D. Ehrlich

gehrlich@wpahs.org

Affiliations Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel College of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Deparment of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Drexel College of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FZH RE NF NLH AT GDE. Performed the experiments: RE AA NF EP NLH BJ JB ML SE. Analyzed the data: FZH TH FJB RB JCP AT GDE MN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FZH AT GDE. Wrote the paper: FZH NLH AT GDE.