About the Authors

Joan L. Kenney

Current address: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

A. Paige Adams
Rodion Gorchakov
Grace Leal
Scott C. Weaver

sweaver@utmb.edu

Affiliation Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Center for Tropical Diseases, 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: JLK RG SCW. Performed the experiments: JLK APA GL. Analyzed the data: JLK. Wrote the paper: JLK.