About the Authors

Malgorzata Bienkowska-Haba

Contributed equally to this work with: Malgorzata Bienkowska-Haba, Hetalkumar D. Patel

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Hetalkumar D. Patel

Contributed equally to this work with: Malgorzata Bienkowska-Haba, Hetalkumar D. Patel

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Martin Sapp

msapp1@lsuhsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MBH MS. Performed the experiments: MBH HDP. Analyzed the data: MBH HDP MS. Wrote the paper: MBH HDP MS.