About the Authors

Nina M. van Sorge

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Celia M. Ebrahimi

Affiliation Department of Biology and Center for Microbial Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Shauna M. McGillivray

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Darin Quach

Affiliation Department of Biology and Center for Microbial Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Mojgan Sabet

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Donald G. Guiney

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Kelly S. Doran

kdoran@sciences.sdsu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biology and Center for Microbial Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NMvS KD. Performed the experiments: NMvS CME SMM DQ. Analyzed the data: NMvS CME KD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS DG. Wrote the paper: NMvS KD.