About the Authors

Maria Elisa Perez-Muñoz

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Payal Joglekar

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Yi-Ji Shen

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan

Kuan Y. Chang

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan

Daniel A. Peterson

daniel.peterson@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MEPM PJ DAP. Performed the experiments: MEPM PJ DAP. Analyzed the data: MEPM PJ YJS KYC DAP. Wrote the paper: MEPM PJ DAP.