About the Authors

Erin P. Price

erin.price@menzies.edu.au

Affiliation Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Derek S. Sarovich

Affiliation Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Jessica R. Webb

Affiliation Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Jennifer L. Ginther

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Mark Mayo

Affiliation Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

James M. Cook

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Meagan L. Seymour

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Mirjam Kaestli

Affiliation Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Vanessa Theobald

Affiliation Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Carina M. Hall

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Joseph D. Busch

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Jeffrey T. Foster

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Paul Keim

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

David M. Wagner

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Apichai Tuanyok

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Talima Pearson

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Bart J. Currie

Affiliation Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EPP DSS. Performed the experiments: EPP DSS JRW JLG MM JMC MLS VT CMH JDB JTF AT. Analyzed the data: EPP DSS JRW JLG JMC CMH JDB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EPP DSS JRW JLG MM JMC MLS MK VT JDB JTF PK DMW AT TP BJC. Wrote the paper: EPP DSS TP BJC. Conceived or designed other experiments that inspired the current study: EPP DSS JLG MM JMC MK JDB PK DMW AT TP BJC.