About the Authors

Adriana M. C. Canavaci

Contributed equally to this work with: Adriana M. C. Canavaci, Juan M. Bustamante

Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Juan M. Bustamante

Contributed equally to this work with: Adriana M. C. Canavaci, Juan M. Bustamante

Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Angel M. Padilla

Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Cecilia M. Perez Brandan

Affiliation Instituto de Patología Experimental - CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina

Laura J. Simpson

Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Dan Xu

Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Courtney L. Boehlke

Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Rick L. Tarleton

tarleton@cb.uga.edu

Affiliations Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMCC JMB RLT. Performed the experiments: AMCC JMB AMP CMPB LJS DX CLB. Analyzed the data: AMCC JMB AMP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CMPB DX CLB. Wrote the paper: AMCC JMB RLT.