About the Authors

Kaitlin J. Soye

Contributed equally to this work with: Kaitlin J. Soye, Claire Trottier

Affiliations McGill University Health Center Research Institute, Department of Infectious Diseases, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Segal Cancer Centre, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, SMBD Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Claire Trottier

Contributed equally to this work with: Kaitlin J. Soye, Claire Trottier

Affiliations McGill University Health Center Research Institute, Department of Infectious Diseases, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Segal Cancer Centre, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, SMBD Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Chris D. Richardson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Brian J. Ward

wmiller@ldi.jgh.mcgill.ca (WHM); brian.ward@mcgill.ca (BJW)

Affiliation McGill University Health Center Research Institute, Department of Infectious Diseases, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Wilson H. Miller Jr.

wmiller@ldi.jgh.mcgill.ca (WHM); brian.ward@mcgill.ca (BJW)

Affiliation Segal Cancer Centre, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, SMBD Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KJS CT BJW WHM. Performed the experiments: KJS CT. Analyzed the data: KJS CT BJW WHM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CDR. Wrote the paper: KJS CT.