About the Authors

Heather MacInnes

Current address: National Children's Study, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Affiliation Program in Infectious Disease, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Yue Zhou

Affiliation Program in Aerosol Science, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Kristine Gouveia

Affiliation Program in Infectious Disease, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Jenna Cromwell

Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, A Subsidiary of Abbott Molecular Inc., Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Kristin Lowery

Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, A Subsidiary of Abbott Molecular Inc., Carlsbad, California, United States of America

R. Colby Layton

Current address: MRIGlobal, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation Program in Infectious Disease, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Michael Zubelewicz

Affiliation Program in Infectious Disease, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Rangarajan Sampath

Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, A Subsidiary of Abbott Molecular Inc., Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Steven Hofstadler

Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, A Subsidiary of Abbott Molecular Inc., Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Yushi Liu

Affiliation Program in Lung Cancer, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Yung-Sung Cheng

Affiliation Program in Aerosol Science, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Frederick Koster

fkoster@lrri.org

Affiliations Program in Infectious Disease, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America, Program in Applied Science, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM YZ SH Y-SC FK. Performed the experiments: HM YZ KG RCL JC MZ. Analyzed the data: HM KG KL MZ YL Y-SC FK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS SH. Wrote the paper: HM FK.