About the Authors

Lauren C. Frazer

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Toni Darville

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kumar Chandra-Kuntal

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Charles W. Andrews Jr

Affiliation Milstead Pathology Group, Conyers, Georgia, United States of America

Matthew Zurenski

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Margaret Mintus

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yasser M. AbdelRahman

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Robert J. Belland

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Robin R. Ingalls

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Catherine M. O'Connell

oconnellcm@upmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CO TD RB LF. Performed the experiments: YA KCK MM LF CO CA MZ. Analyzed the data: CO LF TD RB RI MZ YA. Wrote the paper: CO LF TD.