About the Authors

Mary A. M. Rogers

maryroge@umich.edu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Dejan Micic

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Neil Blumberg

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Vincent B. Young

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

David M. Aronoff

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAMR NB VBY DMA. Performed the experiments: MAMR DM. Analyzed the data: MAMR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VBY DMA. Wrote the paper: MAMR DM NB VBY DMA.