About the Authors

Jeffrey B. Locke

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ramy K. Aziz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Mike R. Vicknair

Affiliation Kent SeaTech Corporation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Victor Nizet

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

John T. Buchanan

jtbuchanan@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Aqua Bounty Technologies, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JBL MRV VN JB. Performed the experiments: JBL MRV. Analyzed the data: JBL RKA VN JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RKA MRV JB. Wrote the paper: JBL RKA VN JB.