About the Authors

Mohamed Mlih

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Mobina Khericha

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

Affiliation Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Christine Birdwell

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Dept. of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

A. Phillip West

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dept. of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Jason Karpac

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

karpac@tamhsc.edu

Affiliation Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.