About the Authors

Guang Xu

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

Affiliations Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

David H. Walker

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

dwalker@utmb.edu

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

Daniel Jupiter

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Peter C. Melby

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Christine M. Arcari

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

Current address: Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.