About the Authors

Vitomir Djokic

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Lorenzo Giacani

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Nikhat Parveen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Parveeni@njms.rutgers.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.