About the Authors

Ricardo Valladares

Contributed equally to this work with: Ricardo Valladares, Dhyana Sankar

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Dhyana Sankar

Contributed equally to this work with: Ricardo Valladares, Dhyana Sankar

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Nan Li

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Emily Williams

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Kin-Kwan Lai

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Asmaa Sayed Abdelgeliel

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Claudio F. Gonzalez

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Clive H. Wasserfall

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Joseph Larkin III

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Desmond Schatz

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Mark A. Atkinson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Eric W. Triplett

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Josef Neu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Graciela L. Lorca

glorca@ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CFG MAA JN GLL. Performed the experiments: RV DS NL EW ASA KKL CHW GLL. Analyzed the data: RV DS NL EW KKL CFG CHW JL DS MAA EWT JN GLL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CHW DS MAA EWT JN GLL. Wrote the paper: RV CFG JN GLL.