About the Authors

Tanja Petnicki-Ocwieja

Affiliation Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alicia S. DeFrancesco

Affiliation Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Erin Chung

Affiliation Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Courtney T. Darcy

Affiliation Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Roderick T. Bronson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Koichi S. Kobayashi

Affiliation Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Linden T. Hu

lhu@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Affiliation Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LTH TPO. Performed the experiments: TPO ASD EC CTD. Analyzed the data: LTH TPO RTB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KSK. Wrote the paper: LTH TPO. Histological analysis: RTB.