About the Authors

Ijeoma Ejigiri

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Daniel R. T. Ragheb

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Paco Pino

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Alida Coppi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Brandy Lee Bennett

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Dominique Soldati-Favre

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Photini Sinnis

psinnis@jhsph.edu

Current address: Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS IE DSF. Performed the experiments: IE DRTR AC PP BLB. Analyzed the data: IE PS DRTR PP DSF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IE PS PP DSF. Wrote the paper: IE PS.