About the Authors

Peter M. Schmidt

Peter.Schmidt@CSIRO.au

Affiliation Division of Materials Science & Engineering, CSIRO, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Rebecca M. Attwood

Affiliation Division of Materials Science & Engineering, CSIRO, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Peter G. Mohr

Affiliation Australian Animal Health Laboratory, CSIRO, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Susan A. Barrett

Affiliation Division of Materials Science & Engineering, CSIRO, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Jennifer L. McKimm-Breschkin

Affiliation Division of Materials Science & Engineering, CSIRO, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

All authors are employees of the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). JLM is receiving funding from GSK and the NIH. JLM and PMS receive funding from the NHMRC. The contents of this work are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH, NHMRC or GSK. The authors also confirm that the above mentioned competing interests do not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PMS JLM. Performed the experiments: PMS RMA SAB. Analyzed the data: PMS JLM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PMS SAB JLM. Wrote the paper: PMS PGM JLM.