About the Authors

Chitra Chauhan

Contributed equally to this work with: Chitra Chauhan, Susanta K. Behura

† Deceased.

Affiliation Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Susanta K. Behura

Contributed equally to this work with: Chitra Chauhan, Susanta K. Behura

Affiliation Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Becky deBruyn

Affiliation Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Diane D. Lovin

Affiliation Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Brent W. Harker

Affiliation Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Consuelo Gomez-Machorro

Affiliation Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Akio Mori

Affiliation Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Jeanne Romero-Severson

Affiliation Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

David W. Severson

severson.1@nd.edu

Affiliation Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC SKB JRS DWS. Performed the experiments: CC SKB BD BWH DDL. Analyzed the data: CC SKB BWH JRS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CGM AM. Wrote the paper: CC SKB BWH DWS.