About the Authors

Dustin Brisson

dbrisson@sas.upenn.edu

Affiliation Biology Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nilofer Baxamusa

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases of the Department of Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Ira Schwartz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Gary P. Wormser

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases of the Department of Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DB NB IS GPW. Performed the experiments: DB NB IS GPW. Analyzed the data: DB GPW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DB NB IS GPW. Wrote the paper: DB IS GPW.