About the Authors

Erich Loza Telleria

Contributed equally to this work with: Erich Loza Telleria, Joshua B. Benoit

Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, LEPH, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Joshua B. Benoit

Contributed equally to this work with: Erich Loza Telleria, Joshua B. Benoit

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America.

Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, LEPH, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Xin Zhao

Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, LEPH, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Amy F. Savage

Current address: Department of Biology, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, United States of America.

Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, LEPH, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Sandesh Regmi

Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, LEPH, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Thiago Luiz Alves e Silva

Current address: Instituto do Bioquímica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, LEPH, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Michelle O'Neill

Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, LEPH, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Serap Aksoy

serap.aksoy@yale.edu

Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, LEPH, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ELT JBB AFS SR SA. Performed the experiments: ELT JBB XZ AFS SR TLAeS MO. Analyzed the data: JBB ELT XZ SA. Wrote the paper: ELT JBB XZ AFS SA.