About the Authors

Cyprian C. Rossetto

Contributed equally to this work with: Cyprian C. Rossetto, Margaret Tarrant-Elorza

Affiliation The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Margaret Tarrant-Elorza

Contributed equally to this work with: Cyprian C. Rossetto, Margaret Tarrant-Elorza

Affiliation The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Gregory S. Pari

gpari@medicine.nevada.edu

Affiliation The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GSP MTE CCR. Performed the experiments: CCR MTE. Analyzed the data: GSP CCR MTE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GSP CCR MTE. Wrote the paper: GSP CCR MTE.