About the Authors

Kenny D. Kronforst

Affiliations Newborn Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christy J. Mancuso

Affiliation Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Matthew Pettengill

Affiliations Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jana Ninkovic

Affiliations Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Melanie R. Power Coombs

Affiliation Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Chad Stevens

Affiliation Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael Otto

Affiliation Pathogen Molecular Genetics Section, Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Carina Mallard

Affiliation Physiology, The University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Xiaoyang Wang

Affiliation Physiology, The University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Donald Goldmann

Affiliations Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ofer Levy

ofer.levy@childrens.harvard.edu

Affiliations Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist, with the exception of OL who served as a consultant to MedImmune, Biosynexus, and Opsona Therapeutics. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK CM MP MRPC OL. Performed the experiments: KK CJM MP CS JN. Analyzed the data: KK CJM MP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRPC MO OL. Wrote the paper: KK CJM OL JN. Intellectually contributed to the manuscript: JN CM DG MO XW.