About the Authors

Bret Poat

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Sidhartha Hazari

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Partha K. Chandra

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Feyza Gunduz

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Luis A. Balart

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Xavier Alvarez

Affiliation Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Srikanta Dash

sdash@tulane.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BP SH SD. Performed the experiments: BP SH PKC FG XA. Analyzed the data: BP SH PKC FG LAB SD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BP SH PKC XA SD. Wrote the paper: BP SD. Crtically read the manuscript: LAB.