About the Authors

Mathilde Guerbois

Affiliation Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Sealy Center for Vaccine Development, and Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Eugenia Volkova

Affiliations Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Sealy Center for Vaccine Development, and Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Naomi L. Forrester

Affiliation Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Sealy Center for Vaccine Development, and Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Shannan L. Rossi

Affiliation Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Sealy Center for Vaccine Development, and Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Ilya Frolov

Current address: Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America.

Affiliation Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Sealy Center for Vaccine Development, and Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Scott C. Weaver

sweaver@utmb.edu

Affiliation Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Sealy Center for Vaccine Development, and Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG IF SCW. Performed the experiments: MG EV NLF SLR. Analyzed the data: MG SLR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG SLR IF SCW. Wrote the paper: MG IF SCW.