About the Authors

Naveen K. Vaidya

vaidyan@umkc.edu

Affiliations Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Division of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Ruy M. Ribeiro

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Alan S. Perelson

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Anil Kumar

Affiliation Division of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NKV AK. Formal analysis: NKV RMR ASP. Funding acquisition: NKV. Investigation: AK. Methodology: NKV. Project administration: NKV. Software: NKV RMR. Supervision: NKV. Writing – original draft: NKV. Writing – review & editing: NKV RMR ASP AK.