About the Authors

Tisha Choudhury Ellis

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Sunny Jain

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Angelika K. Linowski

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Kelli Rike

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Aaron Bestor

Affiliation Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Patricia A. Rosa

Affiliation Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Micah Halpern

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Stephanie Kurhanewicz

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Mollie W. Jewett

Mollie.Jewett@ucf.edu

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TCE MWJ. Performed the experiments: TCE SJ AKL KR AB MH SK MWJ. Analyzed the data: TCE SJ AKL MWJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TCE SJ AKL KR PAR MH SK MWJ. Wrote the paper: TCE MWJ.