About the Authors

Meghan E. Hermance

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

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America.

Affiliations SUNY Center for Environmental Health and Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Institute for Global Health and Translational Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Charles E. Hart

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations SUNY Center for Environmental Health and Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Institute for Global Health and Translational Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Allen T. Esterly

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations SUNY Center for Environmental Health and Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Institute for Global Health and Translational Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Erin S. Reynolds

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations SUNY Center for Environmental Health and Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Institute for Global Health and Translational Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Jahnavi R. Bhaskar

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations SUNY Center for Environmental Health and Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Institute for Global Health and Translational Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Saravanan Thangamani

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

thangams@upstate.edu

Affiliations SUNY Center for Environmental Health and Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Institute for Global Health and Translational Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.