About the Authors

Girish Ramachandran

gramacha@medicine.umaryland.edu

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Darren J. Perkins

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Patrick J. Schmidlein

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Mohan E. Tulapurkar

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sharon M. Tennant

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMT GR. Performed the experiments: GR DJP PJS MET. Analyzed the data: GR SMT. Wrote the paper: GR SMT DJP.