About the Authors

Meghan K. Eberhardt

Affiliation Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

W. L. William Chang

Affiliation Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Naomi J. Logsdon

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Yujuan Yue

Affiliation Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Mark R. Walter

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Peter A. Barry

pabarry@ucdavis.edu

Affiliations Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, California National Primate Research Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MKE WLC MRW PAB. Performed the experiments: MKE NJL YY. Analyzed the data: MKE WLC MRW PAB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NJL WLC YY MRW PAB. Wrote the paper: MKE PAB.