About the Authors

Anand Srinivasan

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Priya Uppuluri

Affiliations Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Jose Lopez-Ribot

jose.lopezribot@utsa.edu (JL); anand.ramasubramanian@utsa.edu (AKR)

Affiliations Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Anand K. Ramasubramanian

jose.lopezribot@utsa.edu (JL); anand.ramasubramanian@utsa.edu (AKR)

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS JL-R AKR. Performed the experiments: AS. Analyzed the data: AS PU JL-R AKR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS JL-R AKR. Wrote the paper: AS JL-R AKR.