About the Authors

Ajay Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Ajay Singh, Alfred Orina Isaac, Xiu Luo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Alfred Orina Isaac

Contributed equally to this work with: Ajay Singh, Alfred Orina Isaac, Xiu Luo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Xiu Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ajay Singh, Alfred Orina Isaac, Xiu Luo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Maradumane L. Mohan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Mark L. Cohen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Fusong Chen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Qingzhong Kong

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Jason Bartz

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Neena Singh

neena.singh@case.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS. Performed the experiments: AS AOI XL MLM. Analyzed the data: AS AOI MLc NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FC QK JB. Wrote the paper: NS. Proof-read and edited the paper: AS. Wrote part of the paper: AS.