About the Authors

Xing Guo Wang

Current address: Department of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Ekaterina Revskaya

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Ruth A. Bryan

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Howard D. Strickler

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Robert D. Burk

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Arturo Casadevall

Contributed equally to this work with: Arturo Casadevall, Ekaterina Dadachova

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Ekaterina Dadachova

Contributed equally to this work with: Arturo Casadevall, Ekaterina Dadachova

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: edadacho@aecom.yu.edu

Affiliations Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Patent application for this technology has been filed with US PTO

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC ED XW HS RB. Performed the experiments: ED RB XW ER. Analyzed the data: AC ED XW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ED RB. Wrote the paper: AC ED. Other: Suggested idea for the study: AC.