About the Authors

Kelly L. Hall

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelly L. Hall, Lisa D. Volk-Draper, Michael J. Flister

Lisa D. Volk-Draper

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelly L. Hall, Lisa D. Volk-Draper, Michael J. Flister

Michael J. Flister

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelly L. Hall, Lisa D. Volk-Draper, Michael J. Flister

Sophia Ran

sran@siumed.edu

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR. Performed the experiments: KLH LDV MJF. Analyzed the data: MJF KLH LDV SR. Wrote the paper: SR MJF.