About the Authors

Brad Tebbets

Affiliations The Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Douglas Stewart

Affiliation The Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Stephanie Lawry

Affiliations The Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, The Cellular and Molecular Pathology Program, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Jeniel Nett

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Andre Nantel

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, The National Research Council of Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

David Andes

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Bruce S. Klein

bsklein@wisc.edu

Affiliations The Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BT AN DA BK. Performed the experiments: DS SL JN. Analyzed the data: BT DA AN BK. Wrote the paper: BT BK.