About the Authors

Sean M. Rollins

srollins1@partners.org

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Amanda Peppercorn

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John S. Young

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Melissa Drysdale

Affiliations University of New Mexico Health Science Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Andrea Baresch

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Margaret V. Bikowski

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David A. Ashford

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Sao Paulo, Brazil

Conrad P. Quinn

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Martin Handfield

Affiliation Center for Molecular Microbiology and Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jeffrey D. Hillman

Affiliation Oragenics Inc, Alachua, Florida, United States of America

C. Rick Lyons

Affiliation University of New Mexico Health Science Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Theresa M. Koehler

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Stephen B. Calderwood

Affiliations Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Edward T. Ryan

Affiliations Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC TK ER SR AP MD MH JH. Performed the experiments: SR AP JY MD AB MB. Analyzed the data: SC TK ER SR AP JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK SR CL CQ DA. Wrote the paper: ER SR.