About the Authors

Jill B. Brelsford

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America

Jordan L. Plieskatt

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America

Anna Yakovleva

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America

Amar Jariwala

Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America

Brian P. Keegan

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Tropical Medicine, Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Jin Peng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America

Pengjun Xia

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America

Guangzhao Li

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America

Doreen Campbell

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America

Maria Victoria Periago

Affiliation Fundación Mundo Sano, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Rodrigo Correa-Oliveira

Affiliation Instituto René Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Maria Elena Bottazzi

Affiliations Department of Pathology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Peter J. Hotez

Affiliations Department of Pathology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

David Diemert

Contributed equally to this work with: David Diemert, Jeffrey M. Bethony

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America

Jeffrey M. Bethony

Contributed equally to this work with: David Diemert, Jeffrey M. Bethony

jbethony@gwu.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JBB JLP AY AJ BPK MEB PJH DD JMB DC MVP RCO. Data curation: AY GL. Formal analysis: AJ AY GL. Funding acquisition: MEB PJH DD JMB. Investigation: JBB JLP AY AJ JP PX BPK MEB PJH DD JMB DC MVP RCO. Methodology: JBB JLP AY AJ JP PX BPK MEB PJH DD JMB DC MVP RCO. Project administration: JBB JMB DC MVP RCO. Resources: AJ AY GL. Supervision: MEB JMB RCO. Validation: GL. Visualization: AY GL. Writing – original draft: JBB JLP AY AJ JP PX BPK MEB PJH DD JMB DC MVP RCO. Writing – review & editing: DC MVP RCO.