About the Authors

Guang Xu

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Nicole L. Mendell

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Yuejin Liang

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Thomas R. Shelite

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

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Yenny Goez-Rivillas

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Current address: Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Lynn Soong

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

Affiliations Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Donald H. Bouyer

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

David H. Walker

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

dwalker@utmb.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.