About the Authors

Jun Liu

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Alex N. Eischeid

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Xian-Ming Chen

xianmingchen@creighton.edu

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL XMC. Performed the experiments: JL AE. Analyzed the data: JL XMC. Wrote the paper: JL XMC.