About the Authors

X. Renee Bina

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Mondraya F. Howard

Contributed equally to this work with: Mondraya F. Howard, Dawn L. Taylor-Mulneix

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Dawn L. Taylor-Mulneix

Contributed equally to this work with: Mondraya F. Howard, Dawn L. Taylor-Mulneix

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: University of Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine, Center for Vaccines and Immunology, Athens, GA, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Vanessa M. Ante

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Sciences Center, Bryan, TX, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Dillon E. Kunkle

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

James E. Bina

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

JBina@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.