About the Authors

Michelle Kiebala

Michelle_Kiebala@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Meera V. Singh

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Michael S. Piepenbrink

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Xing Qiu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

James J. Kobie

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Sanjay B. Maggirwar

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK MVS MSP JJK SBM. Performed the experiments: MK MVS MSP. Analyzed the data: MK MVS XQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK MVS XQ JJK SBM. Wrote the paper: MK SBM.