About the Authors

Xianbao He

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert Berland

Affiliation National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories Institute and Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Samrawit Mekasha

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Thomas G. Christensen

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joseph Alroy

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Igor Kramnik

Contributed equally to this work with: Igor Kramnik, Robin R. Ingalls

Affiliation National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories Institute and Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robin R. Ingalls

Contributed equally to this work with: Igor Kramnik, Robin R. Ingalls

ringalls@bu.edu

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XH IK RRI. Performed the experiments: XH RB SM TGC. Analyzed the data: XH RB JA IK RRI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TGC IK. Wrote the paper: XH IK RRI.