About the Authors

Kristi L. Strandberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristi L. Strandberg, Susan M. Richards

Affiliation Center for Microbial Interface Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Susan M. Richards

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristi L. Strandberg, Susan M. Richards

Affiliation Center for Microbial Interface Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Rita Tamayo

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Linh T. Reeves

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

John S. Gunn

gunn.43@osu.edu

Affiliations Center for Microbial Interface Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KLS SMR LTR RT JSG. Performed the experiments: KLS SMR LTR RT JSG. Analyzed the data: KLS SMR LTR RT JSG. Wrote the paper: KLS SMR JSG.