About the Authors

Erica L. Raterman

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Rodney A. Welch

rawelch@wisc.edu

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ELR RAW. Performed the experiments: ELR. Analyzed the data: ELR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ELR RAW. Wrote the paper: ELR RAW.