About the Authors
- Xiaojun Ning
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- David Nguyen
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Current address: Department of Urology and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Laura Mentzer
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Christina Adams
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Hyunwook Lee
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Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, The Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Robert Ashley
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Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, The Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Susan Hafenstein
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Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, The Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Jianming Hu
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* E-mail: juh13@psu.edu
Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: XN JH. Performed the experiments: XN DN LM CA HL RA. Analyzed the data: XN DN LM CA HL RA SH JH. Wrote the paper: XN HL SH JH.