About the Authors

Ching Wen Tseng

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Pierre Kyme

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jennifer Low

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Miguel A. Rocha

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Randa Alsabeh

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Loren G. Miller

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor-University of California-Los Angeles, Torrance, California, United States of America

Michael Otto

Affiliation Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Moshe Arditi

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Binh An Diep

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Victor Nizet

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Terence M. Doherty

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

David O. Beenhouwer

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

George Y. Liu

george.liu@cshs.org

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CWT PK GL. Performed the experiments: CWT PK JL MAR. Analyzed the data: CWT PK JL MAR RA LM MO MA BAD VN TMD DOB GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CWT PK JL MAR RA DOB GL. Wrote the paper: CWT LM MO MA BAD VN TMD DOB GL.