About the Authors

William Jeffrey Mason

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Eric Patrick Skaar

eric.skaar@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJM EPS. Performed the experiments: WJM EPS. Analyzed the data: WJM EPS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJM EPS. Wrote the paper: WJM EPS.