To date, several bacterial pathogens have been reported to target EGFR through different mechanisms to facilitate their infection of host cells, including Neisseria gonorrhoeae, N. meningitidis, Helicobacter pylori, Haemophilus influenzae, and Klebsiella pneumonia (Mikami et al., 2005; Yan et al., 2009; Swanson et al., 2011; Edwards et al., 2013; Frank et al., 2013). Here, EGFR is linked to infection.