About the Authors

Lisa Herron-Olson

Current address: Syntiron, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Veterinary Pathobiology and Biomedical Genomics Center, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

J. Ross Fitzgerald

Affiliation Laboratory for Bacterial Evolution and Pathogenesis, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

James M. Musser

Affiliation Center for Molecular and Translational Human Infectious Disease Research, Methodist Hospital Research Institute, and Department of Pathology, Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Vivek Kapur

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: vkapur@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Veterinary Pathobiology and Biomedical Genomics Center, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JM LH VK. Performed the experiments: LH. Analyzed the data: LH VK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JF. Wrote the paper: JM LH VK.