About the Authors

Carlos A. Mier-Aguilar

Current address: Departamento de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias ‘‘Ismael Cosío Villegas”, Calzada de Tlalpan, Ciudad de México, Mexico

Affiliation Departamento de Inmunología, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México

Kevin S. Cashman

Current address: Emory University Division of Rheumatology. Lowance Center for Human Immunology. 255 Whitehead Biomedical Research Building, Atlanta GA, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Chander Raman

soldevi@unam.mx (GS); craman@uab.edu (CR)

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work as corresponding authors.

Affiliations Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Gloria Soldevila

soldevi@unam.mx (GS); craman@uab.edu (CR)

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work as corresponding authors.

Affiliation Departamento de Inmunología, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GS CR CAMA. Data curation: GS CR CAMA. Formal analysis: CAMA. Funding acquisition: GS CR. Investigation: CAMA KC. Methodology: GS CR CAMA KC. Project administration: GS CR. Resources: GS CR. Supervision: GS CR. Validation: GS CR. Visualization: GS CR CAMA. Writing – original draft: GS CR CAMA. Writing – review & editing: GS CR CAMA KC.