About the Authors

Elodie Ghedin

elg21@pitt.edu

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tiruneh Hailemariam

Affiliation Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Jay V. DePasse

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xu Zhang

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yelena Oksov

Affiliation Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Thomas R. Unnasch

Affiliation Department of Global Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Sara Lustigman

Affiliation Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EG TH TRU SL. Performed the experiments: TH YO. Analyzed the data: EG TH JVD XZ YO TRU SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL. Wrote the paper: EG TH JVD TRU SL.