About the Authors

Senthilkumar Palaniyandi

Affiliations Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Arindam Mitra

Affiliations Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Christopher D. Herren

Affiliation Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

C. Virginia Lockatell

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

David E. Johnson

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Veterans Affairs, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Xiaoping Zhu

Affiliations Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Suman Mukhopadhyay

mukhopadhyays@mail.nih.gov

Current address: Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/National Institutes of Health/Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP AM SM. Performed the experiments: SP AM CDH CVL DEJ. Analyzed the data: SP AM CDH XZ SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ. Wrote the paper: SP AM XZ SM.